Sorting aliases on mailbox by username then domain, grouped either by username or domain.

[d19dotca]

There seems to be no current sorting of aliases on mailboxes in Cloudron. Right now it seems to just show in the order of most recent at the bottom, oldest at the top.

It'd be great to see it be sorted by either one of two ways which I believe would be much more useful:

1. Sorted alphabetically by username then domain, grouped by username.
2. Sorted alphabetically by username then domain, grouped by domain.

Example:

-- grouped by username --

abuse@domain.com
abuse@example.com
abuse@zzz.com
postmaster@domain.com
postmaster@example.com
postmaster@zzz.com
webmaster@domain.com
webmaster@example.com
webmaster@zzz.com

-- grouped by domain --

abuse@domain.com
postmaster@domain.com
webmaster@domain.com
abuse@example.com
postmaster@example.com
webmaster@example.com
abuse@zzz.com
postmaster@zzz.com
webmaster@zzz.com

Personally I think I'd rather have it grouped by domain so it's easier to check aliases on a mailbox for other domains at a glance.

[nebulon]

@d19dotca I am always amazed by power-users like you, mostly those UI components were done with a handful of items in mind, but of course with extensive usage the UI has to be improved.

I will see how we can improve and at least give basic alphabetical sorting for the next release then. Also it seems with a longer list of aliases, the main list overflows heavily

[d19dotca]

@nebulon said in Sorting aliases on mailbox by username then domain, grouped either by username or domain.:

I am always amazed by power-users like you

I'll take that as a serious compliment coming from you!

And yes I agree, the main list overflows heavily. Here's an example of what mine currently looks like after modifying things to have all the other domain aliases go to my main mailbox (it's pretty big, haha):

[nebulon]

@d19dotca ok so the overflowing is no fixed. But I also think the actual UI for adding/removing aliases does not scale as it was not intended to do.

As always, we have to see what the most common use-cases are here. For a start, I am not sure if this is even the right solution and I wonder if we miss some other use-case which requires you to have that many aliases. For example one could use a catch-all instead?

But also while looking at the addresses, there is a clear pattern of just webmaster related addresses for which maybe better solutions exist out there how to handle those common ones in buckets?

[nebulon]

So the alias sorting in the mailbox edit dialog is now based on domain@mailboxname which means they are grouped by domain and then ordered by the mailbox as such.

[d19dotca]

@nebulon said in Sorting aliases on mailbox by username then domain, grouped either by username or domain.:

But also while looking at the addresses, there is a clear pattern of just webmaster related addresses for which maybe better solutions exist out there how to handle those common ones in buckets?

I agree, and I had suggested as such in a comment elsewhere actually to have the standard RFC-required emails auto-setup and pointed to one address ideally. See https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3794/catchall-for-multiple-domains/7 for that.

@nebulon said in Sorting aliases on mailbox by username then domain, grouped either by username or domain.:

So the alias sorting in the mailbox edit dialog is now based on domain@mailboxname which means they are grouped by domain and then ordered by the mailbox as such.

Thank you for changing the sorting!! I (and I'm sure all powerusers) appreciate that nice quality-of-life improvement.

[nebulon]

Ok I will mark this as solved then since we already have the feature request for the other mentioned issue.