It s not in the same e-mail system, we are running for our main e-mail, = calendar, workgroup, booking and so on, are we running Novells GroupWise. = But the alias function in that product does not fullfill our needs; So we = wanted to set xmail in between the ingoing mails, so that the users still = receive mails from the old adresse (Via xmail and redirection), and when = they send mail it will be with there brand new e-mail adresses, that are = handle by Novells GroupWise.
best regs Kenneth Mogensen >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28-07-2003 21:05:08 >>> At 14:56 7/28/2003, Kenneth Mogensen wrote: >Why i want to do this, is because i have to recreate about 5000 users =3D >email addresses, and i still want them to receive mail from there old =3D >addresses, both the username and domain portion is altered. I'm assuming you have a list of the old addresses and the new addresses?=20= And that the same mail server is handling both the old and new domains? = If=20 so, why not simply establish aliases for the old addresses? Assuming the old domain is foo.bar and the new domain is bar.net, and = that=20 one of the old addresses is schmoo and the corresponding new address is=20 JoeSchmoo, then an alias of: "foo.bar" "schmoo" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will work. (I tested it locally using two locally handled domains...) Note - it's probably easier to set this up by editing the aliases.tab = file=20 directly, since you have so many. Remember that between each quoted = string=20 must be a TAB character (not spaces), and that you must stop and restart=20= XMail if you edit this file, since it's an indexed file. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
