Canonical Address
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Canonical Address
When setting up a user, there is a field on the first page labeled Canonical Address.
What is it and what is it used for?
What is it and what is it used for?
Canonical Address
The canonical address displays in the 'From:" field of messages that are sent.
So say your user account is: last@domain.com
You could have a canonical to make it permanently look like mail is coming from: first.last@domain.com
To take the place of a fixed canonical address you can also user mail identities (in the option tab of each user) so the user can select when they want to appear as first.last@domain.com or first.m.last@domain.com or just last@domain.com
Mail Identities are for appearing to be signed in to another service-So from zimbra you could send mail as user@gmail.com without switching clients/browsers/etc.
However that would only take care of sending, you would need an alias to receive mail at first.m.last@domain.com or first.last@domain.com.
You can have some interesting setup's domain wide as well:
ManagingDomains">http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title= ... ingDomains - ZimbraWiki
So say your user account is: last@domain.com
You could have a canonical to make it permanently look like mail is coming from: first.last@domain.com
To take the place of a fixed canonical address you can also user mail identities (in the option tab of each user) so the user can select when they want to appear as first.last@domain.com or first.m.last@domain.com or just last@domain.com
Mail Identities are for appearing to be signed in to another service-So from zimbra you could send mail as user@gmail.com without switching clients/browsers/etc.
However that would only take care of sending, you would need an alias to receive mail at first.m.last@domain.com or first.last@domain.com.
You can have some interesting setup's domain wide as well:
ManagingDomains">http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title= ... ingDomains - ZimbraWiki
Canonical Address
I have been trying to find an email which I think is a canonical address because I cant seem to find the real name of the person who has been sending me emails. How do I go about finding who it is?
Canonical Address
This search from the admin console should give you the result:
(zimbraMailCanonicalAddress=mysteryAddress@yourdomain.com)
(zimbraMailCanonicalAddress=mysteryAddress@yourdomain.com)
Canonical Address
I tried that and it said that no research results. Am I putting it wrong on the search maybe? I input it on the search as: zimbramailcanonicaladdress=(here I put the email address) and it came up no search results.
[quote user="Hivos"]This search from the admin console should give you the result:
(zimbraMailCanonicalAddress=mysteryAddress@yourdomain.com)[/QUOTE]
[quote user="Hivos"]This search from the admin console should give you the result:
(zimbraMailCanonicalAddress=mysteryAddress@yourdomain.com)[/QUOTE]
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Canonical Address
Did you remember the () ?
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[quote user="ArcaneMagus"]Did you remember the () ?[/QUOTE]
yes and no results. But thank you. I just dont understand how this person is dong this without me knowing who it is.
yes and no results. But thank you. I just dont understand how this person is dong this without me knowing who it is.
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Canonical Address
Try this:grep mysteryuser@domain.tld /var/log/mail.log if they have sent you mail recently, if not try looking in the archived mail.log files.
Canonical Address
[quote user="ArcaneMagus"]Try this:grep mysteryuser@domain.tld /var/log/mail.log if they have sent you mail recently, if not try looking in the archived mail.log files.[/QUOTE]
no it didnt work. I am starting to wonder if I am doing it wrong. Where it says mysteryuser@doman, This is where I put the email address that I received, right?
no it didnt work. I am starting to wonder if I am doing it wrong. Where it says mysteryuser@doman, This is where I put the email address that I received, right?
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Canonical Address
Yes, you might want to post the headers of one of these messages.