Catch all emails and multiply email adresses

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Catch all emails and multiply email adresses

How can you manage multiply email adresses by one user.

example:

ROBERT has two email adresses : robert_home@domein.com and robert_work@domein.com

these two adresses must be sent from OS X Server to the client 'Robert'.

And how can you set up 'catch all email' to one specific adres. We would like to deliver all the emails with a different name for the *@domein.com to one client of our OS X Server.

And is there a way to send one email to multiply users, example:

email: family@domein.com must be sent to robert@domein.com, sarah@domein.com, nivel@domein.com and so on, and so on.

Does anybody knows how to set this up in the new OS X Server?????

Mac mini Server (Mid 2010), OS X Server, With Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 1, 2012 2:06 AM

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Answer 1

Mark23

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Aug 1, 2012 11:49 AM in response to levindenboer1975

You can add multiple aliases to a user from within the server app. Just right click the user you want to edit and choose advanced options (it may take some time before this option appears). In the resulting dialog you should see a field named Aliases, where you can enter the alias you want there.

I don't think there's a way to catch all addresses, if you find one: please share...

The mailing list feature of Lion Server - Mailman - what taken out, please check out this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4161671

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Answer 2

Aug 1, 2012 12:06 PM in response to Mark23

So those aliases stand for the names before @ sign. If i put there the words 'info' 'order', all the emails with info@domein.com and order@domein.com will be transferd to my account?

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Answer 3

Aug 1, 2012 12:12 PM in response to Mark23

No, sorry this is not working!! We have for an example two clients.

sarah@domein.com and fred@domein.com, bouth users must recieve all the mails from work@domein.com.

If we put by each user 'sarah' and 'fred' the aliases Work, we can only save it by one of our clients, not by both?

So it is not working like we used to by the old Os X Server Lion. Where we can put endless of email aliassen by each client!

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Answer 4

Mark23

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Aug 1, 2012 12:35 PM in response to levindenboer1975

Well, you can solve the 'problem' of not having a general mailbox by creating a new user call called info and give that user the alias of orders.

Then you'd give both Fred and Sarah the credentials to this new general mailbox user account... Make sure both orders and info are removed as an alias from both aforementioned users.

As I've mentioned before, sending mail that is to be delivered to multiple users requires a mailing list program like Mailman to be installed on OS X Server.

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Answer 5

Aug 1, 2012 12:34 PM in response to Mark23

We thought about that also, but we noticed that it is not working.

For example, i have the email adres levin@ldbproduction.nl but i make the alias 'twitter' and 'info' in my client account.

So i send a test email from outside the office with our iPhone on the user@me.com account. to info@ldbproduction.nl but nothing is happening, even not with the twitter@ldbproduction.nl mail.

What i know where the aliasses for stand is when you login to the server, example.

Username = myfirstnamewithmysurname

the alias lets you make a short name to login quickly, so if you make the alias like 'firstname' you now can login to your client account with that alias, but it is not working for emails.

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Answer 6

Mark23

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Aug 1, 2012 12:46 PM in response to levindenboer1975

Believe me, it works.

Sending mail from me.com may bounce temporarily as greylisting is active. Me.com tries to send the mail again in one hour, which will then pass through to the intended inbox. Check your SMTP log within Server.app.

The time it takes for a mail server to retry sending mail after a soft bounce differs from Mail Server (MTA) to Mail server. Yahoo takes only 5 minutes. Although I intend to disable greylisting as a whole (but I'll post on how to do that here),

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Answer 7

Aug 1, 2012 12:47 PM in response to Mark23

I have noticed that when we changed the alias the connection with the server true email is lost!

How do you fill the alias field, just with the name/word that is just for the @ sign, or compleet with the @domein.com name behind?

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Answer 8

Mark23

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Aug 1, 2012 12:51 PM in response to levindenboer1975

An alias is the part that goes before @example.com.

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Answer 9

Aug 1, 2012 12:55 PM in response to Mark23

it is realy not working here???? We just send some emails from a different domein.com (online true webmail) and those emails are not recieving our client?

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Answer 10

Mark23

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Aug 1, 2012 12:58 PM in response to levindenboer1975

Those emails are greylisted as well I believe, please check your smtp log in server.app

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Answer 11

Aug 1, 2012 1:02 PM in response to Mark23

We see this in our log;

Aug 1 21:59:52 mail.domein.nl postfix/smtp[56556]: EA7E1B4D0B: to=<info@domein.nl>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=7.2, delays=0.68/0.01/0/6.5, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as E46CDB4D1D)

But it is not comming in my client mailbox on the iMac?

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Answer 12

Mark23

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Aug 1, 2012 1:19 PM in response to levindenboer1975

You have set up your mail client with the mail account of the info user?

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Answer 13

Aug 1, 2012 1:18 PM in response to Mark23

i think it is working now... we were to greedy. Just wait for a while and if we now send some emails to different names for the @ sign, it will come to our mail box.

Now we have to figure it out to ad 'catch all' for the @ sign to one specific user...

Thank's Mark 23.

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