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Newer page: version 17 Last edited on Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:08:46 pm by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 16 Last edited on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:43:20 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
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-* Our mail server allows you to use specify a suffix on your username when giving people your email address, and the suffix will be ignored. This means you could give out username+suffix1 @wlug.org.nz as your email address to one person , and username+suffix2 @wlug.org.nz to another person. The " +" and anything after it will be ignored when delivering mail, so it will all go into your inbox. This makes it easy to filter your incoming mail, and see who is giving your address to other people :) 
+* Our MailServer allows you to amend the username part of your [Email] address with a suffix which will be ignored when delivering the mail. The suffix must be preceeded by a plus sign . This means you can use <tt> username+ebay @wlug.org.nz</tt> to conduct your business on eBay , <tt> username+wlug @wlug.org.nz</tt> to sign up for the WlugMailingList, <tt>username +foosoft@wlug.org.nz</tt> for some download registration form, etc, and it will all go into your <tt>username@wlug.org.nz</tt> inbox. This makes it easy to filter your incoming mail, and to see who is passing your address on to other people. :) 
  
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- * You can create a file named <tt>.forward</tt> in your home directory (remember, everyone who has a mail account, also has a [Shell] account) to have [Email] automatically forwarded to another address. For example after logging in: 
+* You can create a file named <tt>.forward</tt> in your home directory (remember, everyone who has a mail account also has a [Shell] account) to have [Email] automatically forwarded to another address. For example after logging in: 
  <verbatim> 
  $ echo my_other_address@verisign.com > ~/.forward 
  </verbatim> 
  
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 * If you're using MozillaMail and [IMAP] to connect through the FireWall to the server you may need to add <tt>imap.wlug.org.nz</tt> to your "No Proxies for" list (under Preferences/Advanced/Proxies). This tells your MailClient to connect directly to the server rather than through the proxy. 
  
 * When you log into WebMail you may need to use <tt>username</tt> rather than <tt>username@wlug.org.nz</tt> (this differs from other SquirrelMail setups). The feedback when you make this mistake is a little obscure (i.e. several lines of the [PHP] internal error messages and then <tt>Unknown user or password incorrect</tt>.) 
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 See also: 
 * WlugAdmin