Virtual Server Creation - don't add email for admin user

G’day,

When I create a new virtual server, the system is set up to receive mail for the default admin user. For example, if I created example.com, the username will be example. This then sets up mail for example@example.com and the default forwarders go to that address.

Is it possible to have the system not create this default mailbox when creating a virtual server? Most people who I host for use a different username for their email than that one and I end up having to go and create the new user and alias the admin one to their regular mailbox.

Or have I misunderstood the process completely?

Howdy,

Well, the Virtual Server owner is considered to be “example@example.com”. So if there’s an email of some kind to be sent to the Virtual Server owner, such as quota monitoring, cron job output, system-wide email messages, those would bounce if that address didn’t exist.

When creating a new Virtual Server, you can always specify an alternate email address to use for the Virtual Server owner though, it doesn’t have to be a local account.

You can set that in Advanced Options -> Contact email address.

-Eric