3.2) How can
set up my own email addresses?
This is accomplished with E-mail Aliasing.
E-mail aliasing gives you the ability to assign e-mail addresses to contact
points associated with your website. For example, if your website is mydomain.com,
then you can "alias" sales@mydomain.com to one e-mail address
and support@mydomain.com to another. The file that configures this is
your ".aliasmap" file (dot-aliasmap) and goes in your home directory. This
file can be created on your computer and then uploaded to your Netmar account with an FTP client, or you can
create it while logged in to the command shell using and editor like vi.
The formatting the .aliasmap
file is very simple. Each line contains exactly one entry, which is of the form:
source address:destination address
For example, if you had three employees (Jon, Susan, and Drew), and you needed five e-mail addresses
for your site, you could set up your .aliasmap to look something like this:
jon@mydomain.com:jon123@aol.com
susan@mydomain.com:suepatterson9@bellatlantic.net
drew@mydomain.com:drew@aaarmistice.com
sales@mydomain.com:drew@aaarmistice.com
support@mydomain.com:suepatterson9@bellatlantic.net
The above would be a perfectly acceptable .aliasmap file. You may duplicate
entries on the right side, but not on the left side. Also, while it may
work, it would be bad form and possibly cause problems to use an e-mail
address from mydomain.com on the right side of the colon. (i.e. staff@mydomain.com
aliased to jon@mydomain.com, which is in turn aliased to jon123@aol.com).
Note: Changes to your .aliasmap file take effect a maximum of 4 hours after
editing. The files are re-read on a 4 hour schedule automatically.
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