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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 :)
  • You can create a file named .forward 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:

    $ echo my_other_address@verisign.com > ~/.forward
  • Exim also supports specially formatted .forward files to do limited processing of incoming Email, such as save to a certain file, or forward or drop. As currently set up on the WLUG MailServer, such filtering is supported. See EximFilter for hints and examples.
  • If you're using MozillaMail and IMAP to connect through the FireWall to the server you may need to add imap.wlug.org.nz 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 username rather than username@wlug.org.nz (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 Unknown user or password incorrect.)

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