UX Clarity: Add Forwarding to Mailing Lists
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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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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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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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not exactly, as even mailing list have a mailbox, so if you try to make one, it's already taken. -
@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. -
@marcusquinn
not exactly, as even mailing list have a mailbox, so if you try to make one, it's already taken.@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 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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