DA Mailing list

[teedee]

I have a client trying to create a mailing list in DA but they want to use the same address as the default e-mail for this.

It keeps popping up with a "forwarder already exists" error when trying to create the mailing list.

They do not use the default e-mail for anything

ideas ?

Thanks

 

[nobaloney]

Check to make sure there really isn't a forwarder set up in the control panel for that address. In our case there always is; we don't use our login passwords (which we want to be secure) to get email over often unsecured connections.

However this may not be the problem; I haven't checked. It might simply be that DirectAdmin expects a mailing list to have a unique address (a reasonable expectation in my opinion).

Jeff

 

[teedee]

there are no forwarders setup.

the main problem here is that domainname = username and the client wants the mailing list to be [email protected] which either the mailing list or DA doesn't seem to like very much.

 

[nobaloney]

Majordomo doesn't care, so it's most likely something in DA that won't let you create a mailing list for an email address that's already set up.

Perhaps you can set up the mailing list with a different email address, then manually change the aliases set up by DA for the list, and perhaps the list configuration file, to use the address you want.

You can only do this if you're lthe system admin, and it may still not work, depending on the order of the routers in the exim.conf file; I'm not looking at it right now.

You might require a custom exim.conf file as well.

Probably easier to try to talk the client into using something like "[email protected]".

This would probably be less confusing as well, since if you create [email protected], you'll also end up with "example-owner" and "owner-example", which might really confuse people.

Jeff