Email Aliases

[hci]

Looking at moving from a RAQ550 to Directadmin. Thing I do not see on the online demo are aliases. Many of the accounts on our RAQ have aliases. This was usually because a username was to long or the username was in use already on another domain on the server. I do not see anywhere to enter an alias in the Directadmin GUI. It does support this not?

Matthew

[nobaloney]

Originally posted by hci
Looking at moving from a RAQ550 to Directadmin. Thing I do not see on the online demo are aliases.
You don't need them on DA; just set up a forward from <emailaddress@example.com> to <realuser@example.com>.

Many of the accounts on our RAQ have aliases. This was usually because a username was to long or the username was in use already on another domain on the server.
DirectAdmin allows multiple email accounts of the same name, as long as the domain is different.

I do not see anywhere to enter an alias in the Directadmin GUI. It does support this not?
As mentioned above, only as forwards.

Jeff

[hci]

You don't need them on DA; just set up a forward from <emailaddress@example.com> to <realuser@example.com>.

But it would be easier to just have an alias. Not having an alias seems odd.


DirectAdmin allows multiple email accounts of the same name, as long as the domain is different.

With Pop3 I don't see how this would be possible since both domains will be on the same IP. Unless the full email address is used as the username. That would not be good because I don't like the tech support involved in explaining this to 900 users.

I am wanting a relatively painless upgrade for my end email users when moving from the RAQ.

Matt

[hci]

You don't need them on DA; just set up a forward from <emailaddress@example.com> to <realuser@example.com>.

And to add to this. In webmail the return address will contain the username not the desired alias when sending email. At least I think it will. With openwebmail on our RAQ in setup it lets you choose between username and alias for return address.

Matt

[nobaloney]

Originally posted by hci
But it would be easier to just have an alias. Not having an alias seems odd.
In your opinion. Some of us actually like it this way.

With Pop3 I don't see how this would be possible since both domains will be on the same IP. Unless the full email address is used as the username. That would not be good because I don't like the tech support involved in explaining this to 900 users.
This is exactly how DA works. We moved a lot of users from Plesk and from RaQ systems to DA and it didn't take a lot of support at all.

However if this is a problem for you, you should know that you can't get around it with DA and probablly should be looking elsewhere.

As far as I know, Plesk is the only control panel that's rewritten POP so they don't need the complete email address for the login name.

However they've got their own problems, since they use a hash of the password and the username, internally, to create an internal user login. (Biggest problem you can't upgrade any of their software yourself; you must have them do it.)

I am wanting a relatively painless upgrade for my end email users when moving from the RAQ.
Having moved a lot of RaQ users I can honestly say that DA is as painless as you're going to get.

Jeff