Rename user after marriage

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Hello,
sometimes people get married and change their names, at least I heard about that.

How can I make sure, that the user gets a new email address with her new name and can still access her old emails?
old: msgirl@mydomain.com
new: mrswoman@mydomain.com
Email-Access: IMAP
Nethserver running as email-server only, no need to configure SoGO, nextcloud or other services.

create new account and copy old emails via some dovecot-copy tool?
rename old account and email via some tool?

thank you
Uwe

NethServer Version: 7.6.1810

Add an alias of mrswoman@ and leave the account the same would be the simplest answer, I think.

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yes, that’s the simple way, but what is the “right” way?
With an alias you still have the old name in the userbase, after 10 years nobody knows why.

Moin Uwe,

create a new account with the new endname of the girl, use mailstore home edition and transfer all mails from the old account to the new one.

Regards from the 37.5 °C Hell.

Uwe

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Thank you Uwe
let’s see if there are other suggestions.

:laughing: they said we will ONLY have 33°C today in Berlin, that’s nice in black leather on motorbike, but here at work there is air condition :+1:

Uwe

I think the way of @transocean is the right one, but don’t forget the redirect from old address to new address.

Not tested but with nethserver-phpldapadmin you could try to rename your user…