Sending Emails within same domain - question

[paulmann]

Not sure if this is right forum but I'll give it a go.

I've got a domain on the linux server and have created a few email accounts. Suppose they are something like

paul@mydomain.com, terry@mydomain.com

etc.

If I log in to my webmail account (using Horde) and want to send a message to terry, do I have to type in the full email address? Or, seeing as how it is all within the same domain, is there a shortcut I can use instead - something like terry@localhost maybe, or even just terry.

And just out of interest, if I use the full address does the server send the email out of the server into the big, bad, world so that it eventually finds it way back as though it were a normal email coming from a completely different source. Or does it recognise the domain and intercept it before it leaves the server. [You may note a lack of technical terms here!]

[NickJ]

Hello,

Yes, if you wish to email to your second email account, then you will need to use the complete email address. You can add nick to those email account by adding the emails under your address book.

While sending the email, it will verify if there any entry for domain under /etc/localdomains file (Linux-Cpanel specific) and if it found the entry for domain in this file, it will try to deliver the email locally.

Regards,
Nick J.

[jc8654]

As Nick said, you need to use the full email address. If you used something like "Terry" and tried to send to this, if you had multiple domains on the server each with an account Terry@domainforaccount.com, the server wouldn't know where to send the message. As such, no email system I am aware of supports such a method.