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Question
Is it possible to create a mailbox or configure mail forwarding for a domain alias in Plesk?
Answer
The feature of creating mailboxes under domain aliases is yet to be implemented. Instead, the mailboxes of the primary domain are used.
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The current implementation shows that:
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If the Mail service option is enabled during domain alias creation, the mailboxes created under the primary domain will also be available under the alias.
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If the mail is sent to a mailbox on the domain alias (john.doe@alias-example.com), it will be forwarded to the mailbox with the same name on the primary domain (john.doe@example.com).
So the necessary forwarding rules can be configured on the mailboxes of the primary domain.
Comments
5 comments
This seems to have changed recently as it appears no longer possible to add email alias from another domain to the primary domain.
For example, I have primarydomain.uk as the primary domain. I then have secondarydomain.co.uk as a domain alias of primarydomain.uk. Mail service is enabled on both. When I go to an email address on primarydomain.uk, and go to "Email Aliases" tab, I can only add email aliases for @primarydomain.uk and no other option.
@Joey Cooper
You have an email address mail@primarydomain.uk. Then you set up an alias for primarydomain.uk, for example, secondarydomain.co.uk. If you select the Mail service option, all mail sent to mail@secondarydomain.co.uk will be available at mail@primarydomain.uk.
So it is not needed to create a mailbox on the alias domain. Mailbox corresponding to primary domain's mailbox is created automatically.
This function is a really really headache. It is not intended for highly scalable multisites..
@Alisa Kasyanova
For multisite wordpress sites for example with 400 installations this is useless.
Hello, can you tell us when you will implement this? I just migrated from Direct Admin to Plesk and I can't send email from the domain alias. I have a WP website with 4 domains which 3 are under aliases and I can only receive emails from the alias domain but can't send them! Do you have any workaround?
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