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Email aliases

ogawd — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:17:46 GMT

I'm trying to understand how to add multiple aliases on Mythic site using .forward files as described by @MisterW here:

https://community.plus.net/t5/Email/Email-aliases/td-p/1924511

How do you create .forward files and FTP them to your mythic account?

A link to the Advanced email configuration page

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/hosting/mail/advanced

gives instructions which I do not understand.

The link says the web interface for configuring email addresses manipulates standard Exim .forward files in your home directory.

Where is this home directory? I cannot find any home directory on the web interface. I've no .forward files on my PC home directory (Debian). Exim is not installed.

I've created a spreadsheet of all my aliases, but cannot work out an easy way to transfer these to Mythic site, otherthan doing it manually.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Re: Email aliases

MisterW — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:32:14 GMT

gives instructions which I do not understand.

The link says the web interface for configuring email addresses manipulates standard Exim .forward files in your home directory.

Where is this home directory? I cannot find any home directory on the web interface. I've no .forward files on my PC home directory (Debian). Exim is not installed.

How do you create .forward files and FTP them to your mythic account?

@ogawd

I'm sorry, but if you don't understand any of that, then adding multiple aliases that way is not for you.

Yes, its tedious if you have many aliases, but I would suggest you stick to using the normal GUI method of creating email addresses and defining the action for that address.

For example if you want an address 'fred' as an alias for the 'joe' mailbox , then define an email address 'fred' and set it to save in the 'joe' mailbox

Re: Email aliases

ogawd — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:23:35 GMT

@MisterW Thanks. Yes, I 'm able to set aliases and define actions using the GUI.

I thought I might be able to copy an exim .forward file for an alias from the web interface, and use that as a template to create other aliases. Unfortunately, I can't do that as the exim .forward file is not visible.

I've not come across exim .forward files until now, so I'll use the GUI.

Re: Email aliases

MisterW — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:28:11 GMT

@ogawd

I thought I might be able to copy an exim .forward file for an alias from the web interface

No, its not possible to copy files using the web interface, you have to use FTP to copy to/from your Mythic storage https://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/hosting/upload

If you're not familiar with FTP then best to use the GUI

Re: Email aliases

ogawd — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:50:42 GMT

Worked out a solution. Installed FileZilla and connected to server. This allowed me to see my username directory ("home directory") and the exim .forward files. Downloaded a .forward file to use as a template. Made a script to create .forward files as per template, and named with the aliases from my spreadsheet. Uploaded the .forward files using SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol). Needed to change file permissions.

It took a while to sort out, but it will be so much easier to mange aliases in the future.

Re: Email aliases

MisterW — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:59:13 GMT

@ogawd

Glad you managed to sort it out. That sounds very similar to the way I did it.

I would have tried to explain how to do it, but its difficult to establish what level of expertise posters on the forum have.

You obviously have the level of expertise necessary to work it out😀

Re: Email aliases

ogawd — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:28:12 GMT

@MisterW

Yes I realise it is difficult to know expertise of other users.

Once I'd installed FileZilla and connected to the Mythic server, it all became clear. The only issue was file permissions. Had to change them to 644, the same as the template .froward files, otherwise I got mail delivery failures.

Your original post about aliases https://community.plus.net/t5/Email/Email-aliases/td-p/1924511 spurred me on to set up something similar.

Hope it helps others.