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19 Apr 2017, 10:01 PM | #1 |
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Aliases Questions
Hi.
If I use a FastMail account for a domain I own I'll have two addresses right? For example: 123@fastmail.fm 123@mydomain.com but how will the web interface look? Will all mails be received in the same Inbox? If I create folders will they be shared by both addresses? Thanks in advance. |
19 Apr 2017, 11:13 PM | #2 | |
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Unchanged. Yes, essentially, but you can redirect using identities and filtering. Yes, but you can assign folders to identities, so that some will ‘belong’ to one email address and some to the other. |
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19 Apr 2017, 11:38 PM | #3 |
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20 Apr 2017, 10:52 AM | #4 |
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Alias features
Welcome to the EMD Forums! It's even better than that. Sorry this is so long, but for future reference...
If you have a current account type which supports using your own domains (Standard or Professional account), you can create at least 600 aliases at FastMail domains and your own domain. You can send and receive email at any of these aliases using your account, but you must use your single FastMail account address to log in. You can change the login address (which must be at a FastMail domain), by the way. When creating FastMail domain aliases, you have a choice of many domains (including sent.com, mm.st, and some other short domain names). You can only use an alias which nobody else has reserved, with these limitations:
_@mydomain.com b@mydomain.com 8@mydomain.com The aliases described above must be defined in advance in the Settings>Aliases setup screen. Each of these aliases targets (is delivered to) your FastMail account by default, You can also target each alias to an external email account, even at another email service. FastMail also supports subdomain and plus+addresses, which allow you to create a new alias at any time. You can do this by moving the username to the right of the @, so using the examples above you could use anything@b.mydomain.com or news@8.mydomain.com or use a FastMail domain alias in a similar fashion. Why would you want to use subdomain addressing? It allows you to better sort incoming email from businesses or other organizations where you sign up on their website and detect phishing. How does this work?
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20 Apr 2017, 11:39 PM | #5 |
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25 Apr 2017, 12:17 AM | #6 | |
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I think the missing step here (and please correct me if I'm missing something else obvious ), is that the "bank" alias would have to be created to point to a plus address in the first place — something like either "yourname+bank@yourdomain.com" or "bank@yourname.yourdomain.com" rather than just your primary e-mail address. I think that would work the way you describe, since it gets converted to a plus address, and plus addresses can be stacked (so a message to "servicename@bank.yourdomain.com" gets translate to yourname+bank+servicename@yourdomain.com" and then handled appropriately). |
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28 Apr 2017, 09:24 PM | #7 |
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Oops ... you are correct ... I forgot to include some details about using the wildcard plus+address +* in the alias target. I have been out of town and very busy this week, but within a few days I will go back and edit my earlier post to show the details. You have a choice when you choose the alias target on whether to file the message in folder A or folder B when messages are sent to the subdomain address A@B.domain.com. There is also a related choice on applying or ignoring subdomain addressing when using your own domain. Again, too much for now, but I will update this thread within a few days when I get back to it. Sorry I forgot to include those details earlier, but I set these features up several years ago on my main account and forgot about that alias target detail.
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It's still totally possible to do this manually by typing in the target plus address yourself, of course (as I noted above), but there doesn't appear to be any specific option for it anymore. Quote:
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25 Oct 2018, 08:36 AM | #9 |
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There is an implication in this thread that one needs to create an alias to be able to apply a subdomain for that address. (For domains I own)
But I think that might be the case only if you have not created the "*" catchall for that domain. Is this correct? For example, say I have domain weeds.com And I have setup the catchall alias *@weeds.com to point to my Fastmail user account. If I create a subdomain address on the fly such as fred@greedybank.weeds.com and give that address to greedybank ... Then emails to fred@greedybank.weeds.com should arrive in my FM account without the requirement to setup an alias of greedybank@weeds.com. I have tested this and it seems to work fine. Any comments on this method? I guess it would fail if I removed the catchall on my domain. But other than that? |
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If you want to disable that one subdomain (greedybank.weeds.com), add an alias for greedybank@weeds.com and set it to reject all mail. This will disable that alias but allow others to continue working. Bill |
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29 Oct 2018, 10:39 PM | #11 |
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Bill - thanks for the detailed explanation.
There are a few ideas in there for me to test out - in particular the creation of an alias to then reject unwanted emails to a subdomain. Your contributions to this forum are much appreciated. Cheers. |
30 Oct 2018, 09:27 AM | #12 | |
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