[webmin-l] Virtual E-Mails With Virtualmin

[Conrad D. <co...@cd...>]

Ok..here's a question for you. Platform - Red Hat 7.2.

Brief rundown of the situation:
I've currently got a client that we've setup webmin/virtualmin for on a 
server. They have utilized virtualmin to create virtualhosts on the 
server. Everything is working fine, but I'm having a hard time trying to 
figure out how to handle aliases when it comes to virtual e-mail 
hosting. Standard virtual e-mail addresses are fine and get delivered 
without a problem, but when I'm trying to setup e-mail addresses that 
accept e-mail and forward e-mail along to other users I run into problems.

Here's how I see it. There are three ways to handle virtual e-mails, you 
can store a users e-mail (deliver it to their mailbox), you can forward 
a users e-mail (deliver it to someone elses mailbox), or you can do both 
of these (deliver it to their mailbox as well as someone elses). In 
virtualmin, if I create a user to just accept e-mail there's no problem. 
In addition, if I want it to act as an alias to one other e-mail 
address, I realize I can manage that via "Mail Aliases". However, if I 
want it to act as an alias to multiple other e-mail addresses it gets a 
little complicated. Under "Mail Aliases" it now has alias desitinations 
as "user-domain.com" and it creates an alias in the /etc/aliases file. 
This makes sense...however, if there are two or three e-mail addresses 
that we're supposed to be forwarding mail to there's no way to modify 
them as the only thing that shows up is the alias to "user-domain.com". 
If I clear this field out and put in e-mail addresses again it just does 
the same thing and makes another entry in /etc/aliases like before. I'm 
now looking at three alias records in /etc/aliases.

Wow...I realize this might not make much sense, but I guess my question 
is...what's the best way to handle setting up an e-mail address to act 
as an alias to multiple other e-mails? Anybody have any recommendations?

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