An Alias Account provides a way to redirect mail to another user on the same domain. For example, you may wish to advertise the address sales@your_company.com and you would like that mail to arrive in the mailbox of the sales manager, Cindy. To do so, you would create an alias account for sales, and point that alias to Cindy.
You can create an Alias Account from the Users Page. Creating an Alias is much like creating a User Account, except that you select Alias instead of the User from the Add New User page. In the Name field, type in the username you wish to use for the new alias. Click Add.
From the next page you may either type in a valid username that the alias account will point to, or select an account by clicking on the ... ( browse ) button to the right of the Aliased to field. You will then be shown a list of accounts on the system. Click on the account you wish the alias to point towards. Then click Save Changes.
The user account an alias points to must be local. That is, it must exist in the same domain as the alias itself. To get the same functionality as an alias for a user on a remote system, use the Forward Account type.
Note: Alias accounts also work with POP3 access as long as the password used to access the alias is the password that is set for the specific user account.
Note: Care must be taken to avoid creating circular alias references. SLmail does not check for circular references, and they can cause the program to malfunction.
As SLmail is installed, a number of alias accounts are automatically created. All of these accounts are aliased to root. The purpose of these accounts is to satisfy the expectations of organizations and automated software, which expect to be able to send mail to common mail server account names such as postmaster@yourdomain or mailer-daemon@yourdomain. These accounts also handle mail sent to unrecognized users.
In the Control Panel Applet right-click in any white space in the window and select New > Alias from the popup menu. The new alias account will appear in the window.
Enter the name for the new account and hit ENTER on the keyboard. The Add Alias dialog box will open.
Enter the User name for the alias account or select a valid user account in the list in the dialog box. You must click OK on the Add Alias dialog box to add the new account.