Send welcome mail to admin as well as user.

[tlchost]

Knowledge Base says this was added
Version Number 1.173

Is it done by default? If not, how to I turn it on, or better yet, how to send a copy of the welcome message to the user AND an external email address?

Thanks

 

[tlchost]

Bump
Hello....
Anyone hear me?

 

[Richard G]

Well in this time you've could easily have tested this yourself.
But yes that is enabled by default.

 

[tlchost]

hard to imagine this is setup by default...unless DA can read minds.

"or better yet, how to send a copy of the welcome message to the user AND an external email address?"

But, thanks for responding

 

[Richard G]

Your first question was if the mail to admin and user was setup by default. So that is not so hard to imagine for DA.
The "and external email address" was an additional question.

I only answered the first question if it was enabled by default or not.

As for the second question, does it need to be to user+admin+external address? Or only user+external address?
Because if you want your admin email to be an external email address, you can easily change your admin email address.
If you want to keep your current admin email address you can also setup a forward for your admin email to an external email address. In that case welcome emails are send both to the admin email address and the forwarder.
However in that case all mail send to admin email are also send to that external address too.

There might be an option to change it in the welcome email templates but I'm not sure about that, you can have a look.
/usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/a_welcome.txt - used when adding new admins
/usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/r_welcome.txt - used when adding new resellers
/usr/local/directadmin/data/users/<resellername>/u_welcome.txt - used when adding new users for this reseller

Hope that helps you.

 

[tlchost]

As for the second question, does it need to be to user+admin+external address? Or only user+external address?

I would prefer the former.

There might be an option to change it in the welcome email templates but I'm not sure about that, you can have a look.
/usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/a_welcome.txt - used when adding new admins
/usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/r_welcome.txt - used when adding new resellers
/usr/local/directadmin/data/users/<resellername>/u_welcome.txt - used when adding new users for this reseller

Those files are the content of the welcome message...not the script that sends the message.

I found a non-technical, kludgy, i really don't want to do it this way solution to the problem...simply add an external address to the user's email when creating an account.
The external address will receive the welcome email. Once it's sent, edit the user email entry to delete the external address.

Perhaps someone could tell me which script(s) actually create the email(using the welcome text for content) and I can attempt a mod to send the welcome message to an external address.

Thanks for your suggestions.

 

[Richard G]

I would prefer the former.

Former?? Which one?
Your solution is devious. Why not simply change the admin email to an external email address or create a forwarder?

 

[tlchost]

Former?? Which one?

You seem to be a word player....might I remind you that YOU said I asked two questions...I think you're smart enough to make the distinction between former and later.

Your solution is devious. Why not simply change the admin email to an external email address or create a forwarder?

Yes, I could do wither of those....IF I wanted to get all the administrative triva sent to admin.

If you don't have an answer to the question...save bandwidth.

Hopefully someone who knows which script creates the welcome message can share the answer.

 

[Richard G]

You seem to be a word player

And you seem to be somebody who can't read or understand his own questions and answers.
I do know the difference between former and later.
I don't ask questions without a reason. The options I gave where exactly the same as the earlier, so that's why I asked which former you ment.
Next to that, I'm not English and even I know that "former" is not the correct English word to use in that case.

Anyway, you like it more to uneccesary attack a person how is trying to help you instead of just answering his questions or being at least a bit thankful. I now understand why you did not get an answer earlier.
Have a nice life, I won't share any bandwith on you again, that's for sure.