Mlalias

mlalias in the overarching name for CSE's Postfix-based system for receiving and forwarding emails sent to addresses in the cse.unsw.edu.au domain.

• mlalias is also the name of the command-line utility used to configure user-managed email forwarding and mailing lists.

• CSE does not provide email storage and so any email received for a CSE-domain address must be forwarded to one or more external email boxes, otherwise the email will be discarded.

• If a user has not used to mlalias to configure email forwarding, the email system will make a best-effort attempt to forward emails received for them to their UNSW-maintained <<zID>@unsw.edu.au address.

• The email system allows email to be flexibly addressed to lists of users which are dynamically generated at time of receipt, such as all tutors, all tutors of a particular course, all students of a particular course in a particular teaching term, etc.

• The email system is primarily hosted on the server maillard, uses Postfix to receive and deliver emails, and accesss the New UDB and mlalias database tables hosted on the PostgreSQL server running on bandleader.

See also

• mlalias in the taggi