Topic: Forwarding address for administrative notices - Dissapeared

[mark_s_tt]

Hi,

I just updated a 7.1 install to 7.1.3 using a yum update and now the "Forwarding address for administrative notices" has completely dissapeared from the "Change e-mail delivery settings" panel.

It's also not displayed on the main Email Panel in the bottom section.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[shell]

I'm pretty sure that you now do that from users, under the Admin user.

[mark_s_tt]

There's no mention of it in the Modify - Admin User panel.

Does the administrator email just automatically get used now?

Thanks.

[pfloor]

There's no mention of it in the Modify - Admin User panel.

Does the administrator email just automatically get used now?

Thanks.

Admin has always received notices.  Up to 7.1 your choice (from the email panel) was to have admin receive notices OR forward all admin email to another address.

After 7.1, you now go to the user panel and have the choice to deliver to admin, deliver somewhere else or both, just like any other user.

See http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=827 for details.

[mike_mattos]

Any rationale why email notices were merged?  I suspect most people want to get all the admin notices EXCEPT email on an urgent basis , and want email notices to go into a spam folder, or am I missing something?

[raem]

mike_mattos

>...Any rationale why email notices were merged?

Nothing changed except the panel location of where the admin email address was entered, and it was done to standardise it so admin was just like any other user.

The admin user has always received email to admin & system messages.

[mike_mattos]

Just figured it out, I have a filter on my email client!  So my admin notices are filtered locally, not on the server!

That would be a nice feature to build into the server ( urgent admin having a different email address )

[bpivk]

That would be a nice feature to build into the server ( urgent admin having a different email address )

Or you could just use admin for administrative purposes and create a webmaster alias for other mail.

[raem]

> ....Or you could just use admin for administrative purposes and create a webmaster alias for other mail.


You can also specify different admin addresses eg adminavscan adminbackup etc etc, within the actual code (using custom templates) for some/certain features/applications eg dmay backup contrib, clamscan too I recall, and have those type of messages go to a different "admin" address anyway.

You can also create groups so that multiple people get some types of admin messages and the real admin gets all/other messages etc etc.