The Alias Agent enables your NetMail® system to recognize user aliases. Aliases can be defined manually or automatically. The Alias Agent can also be used to automatically populate the User objects Internet E-mail Address property.
The automatic aliasing feature pulls information directly from Novell® eDirectory to generate aliases for eDirectory User objects. Aliases can be automatically generated in the following formats:
Firstname_Lastname@Domain (Steve_Johnston@novell.com)
First Letter+Lastnam@Domain (Sjohnsto@novell.com)
NOTE: This alias option is limited to eight characters.
Firstname.Lastname@Domain(Steve.Johnston@novell.com)
Full.M.Name@Domain (Steve.W.Johnston@novell.com)
Full_M_Name@Domain (Steve_W_Johnston@novell.com)
Manually defined aliases can correspond to any Internet mail address such as webmaster@company.com.
The aliases created via the Alias Agent are not defined as Alias objects in eDirectory; rather, they are maintained by the Alias Agent and are specific to the NetMail message system.
Existing eDirectory Alias objects are recognized by NetMail, but they function independently of the Alias Agent. Messages addressed to Alias objects are automatically delivered to the associated users mailbox by the NMAP Agent.
IMPORTANT: You must restart the msgalias executable to effect any changes in the Alias Agent's configuration. For information on loading and unloading the NetMail Agents, see the Novell NetMail Administration Guide at http://www.novell.com/documentation.
The Alias Agent object has six properties pages:
Click the above links for a detailed description of each page's configuration settings.
NOTE: If you configure attributes in multiple pages, you must click Save in each page to save your changes.
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