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Seems like you can't have 2 aliases with the same names belonging to different groups.. Is there are a workaround?


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You can definitely have alias@domainA.com for one mailbox and alias@domainB.com for another. Scalix doesn't have the concept of domain ownership.

If you're talking about alias@domain.com going to 2 different mailboxes, that's a PDL.

Cheers

Dave

is this something that can be done through sac (GUI). So far I have only discovereed 'groups', which I assumed are what we need.

-Andrey

Hi,

I don't think I understand what you're trying to archieve yet. What exactly do you mean by "alias"? Most people refer to additional SMTP (user@domain.com) addresses as aliases. One Mailbox/User can have multiple of those. However, when you add a mailbox/user as a member to a group, you technically add the "user", i.e. the user name (Firstname Lastname). There is no point in adding a specific alias to a group as messages sent to any of the aliases will end up in the same mailbox anyway....

But maybe I just understand you wrong....

Florian.

How do I achieve

" alias@domainA.com for one mailbox and alias@domainB.com for another. "

And what's a PDL :)?

Hi,

sorry, PDL is the "old name" that's still reflected in the names of the command line utilities. PDL standards for Public Distribution List. SAC simply tends to call these things a "Group" now which is what people find easier to understand. Guess I've been in the business and with the product for too long.

Well, you just create two separate mailboxes each with one of the addresses.

I guess what you're referring to is how this relates to the domain that you setup during installation?

Well...

... either you can, while creating the user, override the email address for the user and enter it manually, including domain. If it doesn't offer the domain, you can add additional domains through Settings/Administration.

... if you do this more regularly, I would suggest that you go to Server/Mailnodes adminisration and add another mailnode. This acts like a "Organizational Unit". When you create a new mailnode, you can specify a per-mailnode domain. This will take precedence over the system wide domain. If you then add a user to a mailnode (can be chosen from a dropdown when creating the user), the user will automatically get an address on that domain.

Now, if you prefer it doing the command line way, what I mean is:



Explanations for all these options can be found in the respective manpages, i.e.



You would end up with the following two email addresses for the two users:

Mr.User1@domain1.com
Mr.User2@domain2.com

These are completely separate mailboxes and user accounts. The Scalix server couldn't care less about what a domain actually is!

Again, the commands are only for illustrative purposes - you can archieve all this throught the Admin Console as well.

Cheers, hope this helps,
Florian.