cPanel: email address with multiple recipients
So I wanted to set up an email address for multiple recipients; essentially, I needed the admin emails on our organic food site to go to two people:
someone@site.com » joe@site.com and jim@site.com
I'd done this before on our FreeBSD VPSes, but was having trouble recalling exactly how I'd done it. It involved editing the /etc/aliases file and issuing commands via SSH, but I couldn't recall whether I had to set up a new user, etc.
Not only that, but the email address in question was already being forwarded to another address.
As it turns out, since we now have cPanel, I only had to add an additional forwarding address in Mail/Forwarders:
someone@site.com » joe@site.com
someone@site.com » jim@site.com
It never occurred to me that I could have multiple entries for the same email address. How easy was that?
I do worry that I'm forgetting *Nix line commands, though. But I guess the question is:
Q: Do you want to be a sysadmin, or do you want to get things done now?
A: Yes.
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Todd Harrison - LA Headshot Photography says:
Comment posted on 07/31/07 @ 12:09 am
That's what I've done in these cases set up multiple forwards. this seem to work very easy.
Diane Vigil says:
Comment posted on 07/31/07 @ 5:42 am
Yes, it does, with cPanel.
Without cPanel (or, I guess, something like it), it was a matter of setting something up in the aliases file to direct email to multiple parties. I'd done it years ago on a VPS, but had never considered the idea of just setting up multiple auto-forwards for the same email address (and don't know if that would have worked) — but I'm happy to have gotten this done so easily.
Carmelo Lisciotto says:
Comment posted on 08/7/07 @ 3:27 pm
The alias will work.
Carmelo Lisciotto
www.carmelolisciotto.com
Philip de Lisle says:
Comment posted on 09/18/07 @ 9:46 am
Brilliant - I was just trying to figure the same thing out being a cPanel newbie so this post was a life saviour.
Thanks
Philip
Diane Vigil says:
Comment posted on 09/18/07 @ 9:55 am
Excellent — glad it was of help!
Twenty20 says:
Comment posted on 02/20/08 @ 12:23 pm
Dude, that's weird!
I was just doing the same thing for a client and thought that it was possible - but was checking the net to make sure that I would not be breaking something else or causing some funky mail loop.
Turns out, I was right, thanks for the confirmation.
Yep, cPanel's a winner. Rock on!
Diane Vigil says:
Comment posted on 02/20/08 @ 3:26 pm
> to make sure that I would not be breaking something else or causing some funky mail loop
Yep, I hear you there.
As it turns out, it looks like you can also:
- set up a user mailbox (Add Account)
- forward that user's email address to another email address
… and both will get the email. At least, I tried that once.