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    UX Clarity: Add Forwarding to Mailing Lists

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    • robi
      robi last edited by girish

      Email settings > Mailing Lists doesn't hint that it can be used for "Forwarding" much easier than by installing SoGo and finding the mail Sieve settings for Forwarding there after a user is created, logging in as that user and making the setting.

      Adding a whole forwarding page configurator would be great with both options, but that's a bigger ask.

      Otherwise it's hidden in the docs and much less obvious.

      Thoughts?

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      • marcusquinn
        marcusquinn last edited by

        Not tried but doesn't "Mailing Lists" forwarding only work for emails that aren't already a Mailbox or Alias?

        Whereas Sieve would be forwarding for an actual Mailbox and its Aliases?

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        • robi
          robi @marcusquinn last edited by

          @marcusquinn
          not exactly, as even mailing list have a mailbox, so if you try to make one, it's already taken.

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          • ruihildt
            ruihildt last edited by

            I was looking for this the other day, and couldn't find it, so I support this request.

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            • robi
              robi @ruihildt last edited by

              @ruihildt said in UX Clarity: Add Forwarding to Mailling Lists:

              I was looking for this the other day, and couldn't find it, so I support this request.

              me too, felt stupid not noticing.
              then having to go impersonate a user just to set up sieve, ugh.

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              • girish
                girish Staff @robi last edited by

                @robi said in UX Clarity: Add Forwarding to Mailling Lists:

                not exactly, as even mailing list have a mailbox, so if you try to make one, it's already taken.

                Note that this is because the "name" is unique across mailboxes, lists and aliases. Not because mailing list has a mailbox. A mailing list is just a forwarding list, it does not have a storage location like a mailbox.

                In practice, the main difference between a single email mailing list and sieve forwarding is that with the latter a copy of the mail can be kept in the mailbox (of course, you can setup a sieve rule to delete the mail immediately after forwarding). With an email list, it will forward and that's it. It's not saved anywhere on the server.

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                • robi
                  robi @girish last edited by

                  @girish thank you for the correction.

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