built in everyone@ account?

[Dirk]

You know, I've been using Zimbra long enough now that I really should know the answer to this (I suspect I do and that it's "no") but does ZCS have a built in distribution list for all known accounts?

I have a distribution list of "allstaff" and when new accounts are made, I sometimes remember to add them to it, so I can indeed send and email to that list safe in the knowledge that someone probably wont get it

I seem to remember that Exchange had everyone@ as a builtin list for this purpose, does it exist in Zimbra?

[raj]

As you already know the answer i will just confirm..
NO

Raj

[Krishopper]

This script will quickly create a distribution list with all users...

#!/bin/bash

LISTNAME=everyone@domain.com

# Delete existing list
zmprov ddl $LISTNAME

# Create new list
zmprov cdl $LISTNAME
for acct in `zmprov -l gaa`; do
        echo "adlm $LISTNAME $acct"
done | zmprov

[Dirk]

Nice!
I always forget about the scripting aspect of Zimbra.
That will inject every account though, which is good but it will include the spam/ham/wiki accounts, and any others that dont recieve mail. I've modified the script a little so that a list of accounts can be specified which will then be removed from the list.

##!/bin/bash

# --- Config section
LISTNAME=allstaff@domain.com
REMOVENAMES=( zimbra_spam@mail.comain.com zimbra_ham@mail.domain.com wiki@mail.domain.com otheraccount@domain.com )
# --- End config


# Delete existing list
echo "Removing old copy of $LISTNAME..."
zmprov ddl $LISTNAME
echo -e "...done \n"

# Create new list
echo "Adding all accounts to $LISTNAME..."
zmprov cdl $LISTNAME
for acct in `zmprov -l gaa`; do
        echo "adlm $LISTNAME $acct"
done | zmprov
echo -e "\n...done \n"

# Remove accounts from list that are known to be non-user accounts
echo "Removing non-account addresses..."
for acct in ${REMOVENAMES[@]}; do
        echo "rdlm $LISTNAME $acct"
done | zmprov
echo -e "\n...done \n"

That seems to work, I could even add that as a cron task but that feels excessive