Email

Overview

Email is an essential part of life now

An email is essentially your identity online

Well an identity, you can have many

Thus its incredibly important

This talk is incredibly useful for a good overview

We have SPF, DKIM and DMARK

Aliases

Delivering to your mailbox is all good and grand

But what if you want to be someone else?

Such as a service account, for example: root@skynet.ie

Thankfully that is possible (if you are given access)

We have aliases set up for stuff like that

So anyone in these groups gets mail from these addresses sent to them

These (in our case) get sent to a subfolder in our inboxes

But what if we want to send mail as the service account?

In Thunderbird it is relatively easy

Sign into your Skynet account on Thunderbird

Select Settings (bottom right)

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Select Account Setttings

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Select your Skynet email then Manage Identities

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This screen has all your current Identities

Select Add

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Add yer Name, Email Address you want to alias and select OK

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In this example I would be able to send mail as this_is_a_real_email@skynet.ie

(if I was actually allowed to do so)

Use this time to explore the nixos repo to explain