E Mail

PlusMail

The sophisticated mailing system called PlusMail(tm) is included as part of your service. In addition to being

able to have nearly unlimited infobots by simply adding text files to a directory, you can also redirect mail for

everyone in your domain by simply modifying a text file.

Email Redirects

There is a file in your home (root) directory called .redirect. This file can be edited and reuploaded. Just make

sure that each of your redirects is on its own line, with a space between the name and where you want it

directed to. Don t add empty lines between entries, and make sure the file is saved in text (ASCII) format, and

uploaded in text (not binary) format. When you download it to your hard drive, you will see that it already has

a one line entry that looks like this:

default yourdomain@yourdomain.com

This line must be left as is, otherwise your POP email accounts could get messed up. But suppose you want

all email for your domain to go to your already existing POP account somewhere else. You would then

change your .redirect file to look like this:

default yourdomain@yourdomain.com

yourdomain existingaddress@somewhereelse.com

If you want to redirect other names in your domain to other people, you could make the file look like this, as

an example:

default yourdomain@yourdomain.com

fred 73452.452@compuserve.com

info goddess@afterlife.com

This would redirect mail for fred@yourdomain.com to 73452.452@compuserve.com, info@yourdomain.com

to goddess@afterlife.com, and all other email in your domain would go to yourdomain@yourdomain.com.

The benefit of PlusMail redirects is that you don t need a separate POP account for each email address you

want to use in your domain. You can put in your webpages, "Send email to help@yourdomain.com" without

the need to create a separate entry in the .redirect file because ALL email goes by default to

yourdomain@yourdomain.com, unless "help" is specified to go somewhere else!

Multiple redirection is possible. For instance if you want email to go to two addresses at the same time, enter

the different emails with no space and a comma to separate them. You can have upto 4 email address to

cc:...they must be listed on the same line though. For example:

help beavis@aol.com,butthead@prodigy.net

Email redirects can be used in conjunction with autoresponders to return an error message to people sending

emails to invalid email addresses on your domain. This autoresponder could send back an error message like

"Oops, you reached an invalid address, please try again." See "Simple Autoresponders" for how to implement

this.