Email name with no password...

[nhouse]

Hi All... I have read the docs and searched, etc. about this but didn't find an answer. This may no be a question about "how to" but rather a comment on a "how to." During the process of setting up email names for domains, I generally want to have a webmaster address for each one which is actually a redirect to my main webmaster address. Anyway, it seemed to be a lot of extra data to keep up with to set a password for every domain that I do this with.

So, I tried creating an account and did not put in an initial password... thinking that I would probably be rejected by Plesk. Well, it didn't and I simply set the redirect and BOOM it worked. Is this normal... or just a happy accident? I have done several this way and they seem to be all working just fine. All of you may already know this... but for us Plesk newbies, it is pretty handy.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

True, passwords are not an absolute requirement to create a mail name. You didn't set it as an actual 'mailbox' did you, without a password? Wouldn't want to have a passwordless mail account being used to spam out of.....

And no control panel access for that user name, right?

 

[nhouse]

well, of course not... it just seemed odd that it would even let me...