[plug] re: multiple accounts

[Gavin Tweedie]

Easiest would be to tell the isp to reroute, its quite trivial for them to
do it (redirect to another email) and most ISPs should do this without
bitching.


Gavin

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jon L. Miller wrote:

> I've a client that has several e-mail accounts that they want to keep.  
> What would be the best way to handle these accounts.  We will be 
> implementing a GroupWise e-mail system (Novell) on the network.  This 
> system will access (we have two options here) either a Linux box or it 
> can go straight to the Internet.  The problem however lies in the fact that 
> e-mail accounts go to several domains at the ISP.  My question is do I 
> have the ISP re route the mail to the domain (which makes sense) or do 
> I have the ISP keep sending the mail to the user. If the later is true can I 
> have the Linux box do some sort of re routing?
> 
> What I would like to be able to do is have the following:
> 1) if email is for mycar at abc.com.au then this is rerouted to 
> Username at company_domain.com.au.  Also if email is for 
> gold at xyz.com.au, then reroute to 
> Username at company_domain.com.au.
> 
> This user needs to be able to handle 2 different accounts and both 
> needs to reach him at the company_domain.com.au.  He needs to be 
> able to send e-mail under two different identities.  If he is using the one 
> client any ideas how he will be able to accomplish this?
> 
> Any ideas are welcomed.
> 
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