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Topic: how to configure to allow alias to login using respective mailbox pass

how to configure to allow alias to login using respective mailbox password


example: i have few virtual mailbox, and most of them would be aliased.

e.g admin@example.com and alias of admin@example.com is admin1@example.com

and now i want admin1@example.com to be able to login using password of admin@example.com as password would be same being alias.


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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: how to configure to allow alias to login using respective mailbox pass

May i know why you want to do this? Why not just use admin@ and its password, then set 'Reply-To:' to admin1@ in your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc)?

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Re: how to configure to allow alias to login using respective mailbox pass

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

May i know why you want to do this? Why not just use admin@ and its password, then set 'Reply-To:' to admin1@ in your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc)?


i actually migrated from other mailserver, where we have multiple aliases and organization wide we are using aliases to login,

After looking into the config i assume i will have to add something or tweak query

/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf

but any better way or any suggestion plz?

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Re: how to configure to allow alias to login using respective mailbox pass

How about create admin1@ as a normal user, but forward all received emails to admin@ (either saving a copy on admin1@ mailbox or not)?