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Question:

Does Scalix support email aliases? For example, marketing@domain.com and sales@domain.com is an alias for joe@domain.com?

Thanks.

Yes, you can have several aliases for an email address. You can also create Distribution Lists/Groups, so that email sent to the list is received by several people.

Hope that answers the question.

Cheers

How would one do a redirect, ie like the .forward in a "standard" unix type environ.

Also, can mailman be integrated with the underlying sendmail, and is it a particularly "sane" process?

well, we don't use .forward files (as scalix users are not unix/linux users so they don't have a private home directory anyway). We do use server-based rules that can be setup through outlook, our web-based scalix rules wizard or the sxaa command line tool that can be found in the admin_resource_kit directory within our tarfile.

What are you trying to archieve with mailman? sendmail is not actually underlying the system, it is used to queue and process OUTgoing internet email only. maybe there are more clever (and integrated!) ways of dealing with what you're trying to archieve.

cheers,
Florian.

shayne wrote:How would one do a redirect, ie like the .forward in a "standard" unix type environ.

Also, can mailman be integrated with the underlying sendmail, and is it a particularly "sane" process?

Yes, you can use mailman with sendmail on the Scalix server.

When the SMTP Relay can't find a match in the SYSTEM directory for an address, it will turn to sendmail to see if the user is a local one. Provided that you include the domain name of the mailing list addresses in /etc/mail/local-host-names, the SMTP Relay will be able to pass on the message to sendmail for processing by mailman.

If the mailing list domain is different from your Scalix domain, you may also need to add a RELAY accept line to /var/opt/scalix/sys/smtpd.cfg so that messages can be mailed to the list.

Cheers

Dave