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# Instructions for Managing Email Alases/Forwarding Accounts
# Lines begining with a "#" indicate a comment and are ignored.
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# Simply specify your email alias on the left followed by the 
# location it should be mapped to. 
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# e.g. To forward mail from the alias "webmaster@yourcompany.com" to
# the destination email address "webmaster@aol.com", type in:
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# webmaster: webmaster@aol.com 
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# To forward mail from the alias "john.benson@yourcompany.com" to the
# destination "john.benson@singnet.com.sg" & "john.b@hotmail.com"
# type in:
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# john.benson: john.b@singnet.com.sg, john.b@hotmail.com
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# To setup a vacation message/autoresponder to send the contents
# of a text file "brochure.txt" when someone sends a mail to 
# "sales@yourcompany.com", type in:
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# sales: "|/respond /brochure.txt -subject Brochure -from sales@isp.com"
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# where brochure.txt is to be found in your server's root directory.
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# Begin after this line:

Email Aliases

• Following the example line in the instructional text [ webmaster: webmaster@aol.com ], "webmaster" signifies the email alias you want to create, and "webmaster@aol.com" signifies the receipt address. The receipt address can be an existing pop account on your WebVisions server, or it can be any external address, e.g. webmaster@singnet.com.sg or webmaster@aol.com.

Autoresponders

• Following the example line in the instruction message above:

  [ sales: "|/respond /brochure.txt -subject Brochure -from sales@isp.com" ]

• The following words in the example line are variable.
  1. "sales" indicates the email alias on your existing WEBVISIONS server.
  2. "/respond/brochure.txt" indicates the name of the directory your autoresponder text is placed.
  3. "Brochure" indicates the subject header of the email message to be sent out by the autoresponder.
  4. "sales@isp.com" indicates the email address in the "from" header of your autoresponder message.
  5. E.g. if you want everybody who sends mail to "bob@xxisp.com" to receive an autoresponder text file from "bob@xxisp.com" entitled "vacation.txt" your command line would be:

     bob: "|/respond /vacation.txt -subject "On Vacation" -from bob@xxisp.com"

  6. You have to FTP your vacation message ("vacation.txt" in this example, but name it anything you want) into the main directory in your server.
  7. To keep a copy of the email being sent to you, forward a copy to yourself. e.g.

     bob: "|/respond /vacation.txt -subject "On Vacation" -from bob@xxisp.com", bob

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