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by zimpenfish 699 days ago
> 4. A very simple way to setup the accounts on different systems, especially iOS.

On iOS, at least, you can do this using a `.mobileconfig` profile (which is just an XML plist file). Create that, get your user to access it via HTTP, messages, etc., and iOS will configure the mail account for them. I've used it when family members have lost/forgotten/wiped their details.

Some providers do seem to offer this, e.g. (random example from a search) https://support.mailroute.net/hc/en-us/articles/292348267548...

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Last time I checked it wasn‘t possible to configure multiple aliases via this method and it wasn‘t possible to add aliases after adding an account this way.

This is a few years back, so it might have changed.