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About Email Aliases and Pop3 for Users: The Email Alias feature allows you to create an arbitrary e-mail addresses without creating a user account on the Server. An email message addressed to the alias is forwarded to an existing email address. For example, an email alias lets you setup a temporary or permanent alias email address such as sales@mycompany.com and automatically route messages to a specific email user's mailbox. Each registered user on the GorillaHost.com Server must have a username that is unique across all virtual sites on the GorillaHost.com Server. You cannot create two users with the same name on different virtual sites because all users share the same password database file. For example, if there is a user with the username <mary> on virtual site abc.com, no other registered user on the GorillaHost.com Server can have the username <mary>. Usernames can be similar: mary, maryb, mary1, mary2.
An email alias is a way to create an account so that more than one user can have the same email name on different virtual sites (<mary> on abc.com and <mary> on xyz.com). However, the underlying username for each person must be unique. For example, the Site Administrator of abc.com can give Mary Brown the username <mary>; her email address is mary@abc.com. The Site Administrator of xyz.com (on the same RaQ 3) can give Mary Smith the username <marys>; the Site Administrator can then set up an email alias mary@xyz.com for Mary Smith. The alias points her incoming messages to the unique username of <marys> at xyz.com."
A site user can have several email aliases that point to a unique username. For example, John Smith (username <john1>) can have john@abc.com, JS@abc.com, john.smith@abc.com, johnny@abc.com and corvette@abc.com which all point to his username of <john1> at abc.com. A Site Administrator can also set up aliases such as webmaster@abc.com, info@abc.com, sales@abc.com, comments@abc.com or support@abc.com that point to a specific username.
Unlimited Email Aliases: It is possible to setup the mail for your domain so that any email sent to @yourdomain.com will be forwarded to one specific POP3 account or an outside email account. In order for this to work properly, you can not have any other email aliases or POP3 accounts setup on the server. To add unlimited email aliases to your domain, simple follow the instructions below and enter the email alias exactly as follows: @yourdomain.com.
To add or modify Email Settings for a user: To set up or modify the email options for a site user (to enter a forwarding email address, email aliases and an automatic vacation reply), click the
button next to the user.
1. On the Site Management screen, click User Management on the left.
2. Click the
3. Enter the changes in the Modify User table. To add an email alias, enter the additional names that the user will receive email as in the Email Aliases field. For example, for user <john1>, enter "john.smith", "johnny" and "corvette". DO NOT add the domain name to the additional names. Since the site user is part of the virtual site, he or she automatically inherits the domain name of the virtual site. If you do add the domain name in the Email Aliases field (for example, johnny@abc.com), the software gets confused.
Enter multiple aliases on new lines or separated by spaces.
4. Click Save Changes.
Mailing List Management:
In the List Management section of the Site Management screen, you can create and manage mailing lists for the virtual site. A mailing list allows a discussion by email between a group of people; the email addresses of the people in the group make up the list. The mailing list is given a name, for example AlphaProject. The mailing list can include users on your server as well as external users. A message addressed to the name of the mailing list is delivered to each person on the list. If one person replies to the message, the reply is also delivered to each person on the list (and not just to the original sender). To create a mail list in which a person’s reply is delivered only to the original sender, you must create a group mail list (a function available in most email clients).To add a mailing list on your Virtual Account:
1. On the Site Management screen, click List Management. The Mailing List table appears.
2. Click Add Mailing List. The Add Mailing List table appears.
3. Enter a name for the mailing list.
4. Enter a password for the mailing list. You need the the password for managing the mailing list.
5. To accept email addressed to the mailing list from an email address that is not a member of the list, click the check box next to Allow mail from unsubscribed addresses.
6. Add recipients to the mailing list.
• To add external recipients to the mailing list, enter the email addresses in the "External Recipients" field.
• To include existing registered site users on the server in the list, click the username in the scrolling window.
To select all the registered site users, click Select All.
To select individual recipients in the scrolling window, hold the down the Control key (Windows) or the Apple key (Macintosh) and click on the user names.
7. Click Confirm New Mailing List
To modify a mailing list:
1. On the Site Management screen, click List Management. The Mailing List table appears.
2. Click the green pencil icon next to the mailing list you want to modify. The Modify Mailing List table appears.
3. Modify the information as neccessary (see the prcoedure for adding a new mailing list for the options).
4. Click Confirm Modify
To remove a mailing list:
1. On the Site Management screen, click List Management. The Mailing List table appears.
2. Click the brown trashcan icon next to the mailing list you want to delete. A confirmation dialog box appears.
3. Click OK to delete the mailing list.
