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CREATING EMAIL ADDRESSES USING ALIASES
These are the instructions for managing your email services as a shared hosting customer of WeDoHosting.com
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are designed to supplement the information we sent to you at the time you activated your account. If you do not have a copy, please click here to have these details resent to the email address we have for your account.

Email aliases or "forwards" allow you to specify an email address for your domain that does not have a Mailbox (storage) service associated with it. The purpose of an alias is to just take the incoming message, detect that there is no storage for it, and redirect it to another local or external email address. The most common use of this configuration is when you have a primary account, let's call it "mary@yourdomain.com" and you want "sales", "info", and "inquiries" all to be forwarded to the same person. The way we accomplish this is by setting up "aliases" for those addresses.

Any aliases that are setup will override the default "catchall" setting. Also, if you are a single user and are using the "default" feature, individual aliases are not necessary - they are only required if you will be distributing email to alternate users than yourself or to groups of people.

 

Step 1

Log into http://mail.wedohosting.com as postmaster using the password included with your setup instructions. TIP! You will always log into the control panel as postmaster when you want to manage the email settings for your entire domain name.

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Step 2

To create your new alias, click the button for "Aliases" either along the top or down the left-hand side.

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Step 3

If you have already created aliases in the past, you will see them listed on this page. To create a new alias, click the "Create Alias" button.

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Step 4

Item 1 (Create Alias): This will be the address of the alias/forward that you wish to setup.

Item 2 (Goes to these mailboxes): If you want to direct the mail for this alias to an existing mailbox or multiple mailboxes, select these from this list.

Item 3 (And/Or): If you want to direct the mail for this alias to a remote location, this is where you would enter the recipient's email address - example: Bob has a email address at his ISP and really does not want to be bothered with checking multiple email accounts, so you setup "bob.jones@youdomain.com" and forward it to bobsemail@athisisp.com

Item 4 (Discard): You may find that you're receiving a lot of spam to this particular email address, so you can tell our server simply to delete the mail arriving for this alias and not bother you with it.

You can also tell an alias to send mail to more than one recipient. In order to do this, you need to create the alias with the first recipient first, and then modify the alias once it exists.

Once you've made your selection, go ahead and click "Create Alias". Your setting will take affect immediately.

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