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You may want to receive e-mail from ulyssis on another email provider. It is very easy to set this up.
Forwarders are, as the name implies, addresses that forward email for one address to a set of other addresses. As your ULYSSIS account only comes with one potential mailbox, you will probably use many forwarders if you have your own domain for email in UCC. You can use forwarders for example to ensure that your organisation is always reachable on specific addresses known amongst students, faculty staff, partners you work with, etc. even though the team behind those addresses changes frequently. Below you can find detailed instructions how to create and edit these forwarders.


== Change the forwarders for your @ulyssis email address ==
== Change the forwarders for your @ulyssis.org email address ==


# Go to ucc.ulyssis.org and log in with your username and password.
# Go to [https://ucc.ulyssis.org UCC] and log in with your username and password.
# On the right side, click on '''Mail'''.
# On the right side, click on '''Mail'''.
# Under '''Address forward''' you can change the forward address of your ULYSSIS mail by clicking on '''edit'''.
# Under '''Address forward''' you can change the forward address of your ULYSSIS mail by clicking on '''edit'''.
# Choose '''forward''' and enter the email address you want to forward your ULYSSIS mail to and save the changes.
# Choose '''forward''' and enter the email address(es) you want to forward your ULYSSIS mail to and save the changes.
# If you forward to Gmail, Hotmail. or use Thunderbird, we recommend looking at [[Using a forwarder as an alias]] so you can send mails under the forwarding address instead of just your own.
# If you forward to Gmail, Hotmail. or use Thunderbird, we recommend looking at [[Using a forwarder as an alias]] so you can send mails under the forwarding address instead of just your own.
If you want to forward emails received on your @ulyssis.org email address to other addresses as well as have them delivered in your [[mailbox]], you can add ''username''@ulyssis.org to the forwarders list. This will ensure that the email is delivered to your mailbox as if the destination was set to '''Inbox''', while emails are still forwarded to the other addresses.


== Change the forwarders for other domains ==
== Change the forwarders for other domains ==


# Go to ucc.ulyssis.org and log in with your username and password.
# Go to [https://ucc.ulyssis.org UCC] and log in with your username and password.
# On the right side, click on '''Mail'''.
# On the right side, click on '''Mail'''.
# Under '''Virtual Domains''', click on the domain you want to change.
# You can change a forwarder by clicking on '''edit''' or on '''Add alias''' and add the forwarders you want.
# Save your changes


== Use your mailbox and forwarders at the same time ==
[[File:Forwarder Step1.png|left|alt=|thumb|700px]]
3. Under '''Virtual Domains''', click on the domain you want to change.
  [[File:Forwarder Step2.png|left|alt=|thumb|700px]]
4. You can change a forwarder by clicking on '''edit''' or on '''Add alias''' and add the forwarders you want.
  [[File:Forwarder Step3.png|left|alt=|thumb|700px]]
5. Save your changes


An alternative way to set the forwarders, that will also allow you to use your mailbox and the webinterface, is to use a .forward file. On each line of this file, you can specify to wich addresses you want to forward the email. If one of the addresses is the same as your @ulyssis address, then the mail will also be placed in your ULYSSIS mailbox. In the following example, your @ulyssis email address is <code>user@ulyssis.org</code>.
[[Category:Mail]]
 
Example .forward file:
 
user@ulyssis.org
example@gmail.com
example2@skynet.be
 
This will place the email in your ULYSSIS mailbox so that you can access it from the webinterface or your local mailclient. It will also forward the mail to <code>example@gmail.com</code> and <code>example2@skynet.be</code>.
 
To use this, place a .forward file with the prefered email addresses in your homedir, see [[Accessing your files]], and set your forwarder to 'Inbox' in https://ucc.ulyssis.org/mail

Latest revision as of 09:56, 13 October 2021

Forwarders are, as the name implies, addresses that forward email for one address to a set of other addresses. As your ULYSSIS account only comes with one potential mailbox, you will probably use many forwarders if you have your own domain for email in UCC. You can use forwarders for example to ensure that your organisation is always reachable on specific addresses known amongst students, faculty staff, partners you work with, etc. even though the team behind those addresses changes frequently. Below you can find detailed instructions how to create and edit these forwarders.

Change the forwarders for your @ulyssis.org email address

  1. Go to UCC and log in with your username and password.
  2. On the right side, click on Mail.
  3. Under Address forward you can change the forward address of your ULYSSIS mail by clicking on edit.
  4. Choose forward and enter the email address(es) you want to forward your ULYSSIS mail to and save the changes.
  5. If you forward to Gmail, Hotmail. or use Thunderbird, we recommend looking at Using a forwarder as an alias so you can send mails under the forwarding address instead of just your own.

If you want to forward emails received on your @ulyssis.org email address to other addresses as well as have them delivered in your mailbox, you can add username@ulyssis.org to the forwarders list. This will ensure that the email is delivered to your mailbox as if the destination was set to Inbox, while emails are still forwarded to the other addresses.

Change the forwarders for other domains

  1. Go to UCC and log in with your username and password.
  2. On the right side, click on Mail.

3. Under Virtual Domains, click on the domain you want to change.

4. You can change a forwarder by clicking on edit or on Add alias and add the forwarders you want.

5. Save your changes

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