Admin message to all accounts?

[Billy]

Is there a way to easily send an administrative message to all accounts in all domains on the system?

[andreychek]

Originally Posted by Billy

Is there a way to easily send an administrative message to all accounts in all domains on the system?

I haven't seen a built in way to do that, and indeed, that would be a useful feature.

In the meantime, you can do this from the command line. The quick and dirty way is just like this:

mail -s "Hello World" `zmprov GetAllAccounts` < email_body.txt

The "zmprov GetAllAccounts" command returns a list of all the accounts, which is the email address of each user. So, the above would send an email to all accounts, with the subject "Hello World", using the message body contained in "email_body.txt".

You could also use "zmprov GetAllAccounts" to get your email address list, then just load that into Thunderbird or Outlook or whatever, then send it from there.

Have a good one,
-Eric

[steffenm]

I know the thread is very old, but I just looked for the same feature.

Can anybody tell if there is a way to send an admin-mail to all accounts in the current zimbra version?

In the moment I do this with a distribution list for every domain each with every account from this domain in it. To avoid that anyone uses them and to avoid spam I activate the "can receive mail"-checkbox only when I need it - but this is not a very usefull way as anyone can guess...

Any suggestions? (The CLI-version is less usefull in my opinion... ;-) )

Greets,
Steffen

[rmvg]

Any way to run this command using bcc instead of listing all user in the to field? As this behavior is very rude

mail -s "NEW ZIMLETS ANYONE?" `zmprov GetAllAccounts` < admin_message_zimlets

[rmvg]

Great as rude as this command is adding all addresses to the "TO:" field. It has now stopped working?? can someone confirm if it works in 7.0.0????

$ mail -s "ZIMBRA UPGRADE" `zmprov GetAllAccounts` < /usr/src/admin_message_upgrade_7.0.0

ERROR: service.INVALID_REQUEST (invalid request: can only be used with "zmprov -l/--ldap")
mail: You must specify direct recipients with -s, -c, or -b

PS I know their is a bug files somewhere to get Zimbra to send to all account, I am super frustrated today so forgive me, but I have requested this feature many time here on the forums usually without reply.

[rmvg]

Sometime Zimbra really annoys me still help or feature in regards to this post this is a feature that is asked for again and again. Not just by me but probably everyone in the community.

A simple message to my users that i am rolling out Zimbra upgrades today is this feature really to much to ask for

[steffenm]

hey rmvg,
i'm totally with you. i'm also right before the next update and everytime i activate the distribution lists i made for all our customer companies to write all of them. it's an annoying work...
i also have no idea why it should be such a problem to build such a feature that surely every zimbra admin will need from time to time...

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by rmvg

A simple message to my users that i am rolling out Zimbra upgrades today is this feature really to much to ask for

You ought to know the answer to this by now. Asking in the forums for a particular feature to be included in Zimbra has zero effect on whether it will even be considered as a feature. The correct place for this is an RFE filed in bugzilla, if there's already one filed (search first) then vote on it and if not then file an RFE - that's what gets the attention of developers not posting a request in these forums.

[steffenm]

Hi Bill,
you're right. I thought I already saw and voted for such an request but I couldn't find one.
So I opened one by myself!
TATA:
https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63971
So, everyone out there: PLEASE VOTE!!!

[steffenm]

Hi again,

so, my bug was marked as a dublicate of the following:
https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3884

So, it's very good that someone pointed out this very helpful feature a few years ago with ZCS 4.0! I read nearly the whole comments of this bug. And my next question is: Can anybody tell me, what happend to this bug? What does this say:
"Status: VERIFIED, Resolution: FIXED"???

Maybe I'm too stupid but I can't read anything that says: It will be in ZCS 7.0 or something similar! I also can't find a solution for the problem in the comments.
Can anyone help me to understand it?

Greets,
Steffen