I'm in the process of transferring a clients mail service from cPanel to Virtualmin. This person has multiple email addresses on different domains. Everything is working fine except today I am transferring the last of his email accounts which is domains@example.com but Virtualmin is giving me the following error:Failed to save mailbox : The username domains is reserved for use by VirtualminI've tried asking the client if he would just switch this email address to something different (such as domain without the s) but the problem is that the domains@example.comemail address is used as the registration email for all of his business contacts regarding domains and DNS such as registrars.The main issue is that this is the domain he uses in all SOA records for more then 1000 separate domains. He is very adamant to keep the domains email address and for sure would not like to have to edit over 1000 zonefiles to update the SOA email.Is there any way to get Virtualmin to release the lock on this email address? It is my understanding that Virtualmin reserves the logs@, virtualmin-backup@, and domains@ addresses. Im open to any sort of work around even hard coded edits to get this working.
Virtualmin - How to use reserved email names? (domains@example.com)
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You would have to use a email alias in this case.The reason is that domains, Logs, and virtualmin-backup are the names of sub-directories that Virtualmin creates under each domain's home, so allowing a username with the same name would cause them to clash.A work-around for this is to create an email alias for domains@example.com (on Mail Aliases page) that forwards to the actual mailbox with a different name.However there is currently a bug in Virtualmin that still won't allow you to use these names as mail aliases - This is a bug as it should be possible to have an alias named domains (or the other reserved names).Failed to save alias : Missing or invalid alias name (no @ should be included)This should be fixed in an upcoming release.Source - https://www.virtualmin.com/node/40377