LDAP: Add a mail list account

Add mail list with iRedAdmin-Pro

With iRedAdmin-Pro, you can easily add mail list account by click menu: Add -> Mail List in main navigation bar.

Add mail list with phpLDAPadmin

• Login to phpLDAPadmin (httpS://[your_server]/phpldapadmin/)
• Expand LDAP tree in left panel, find ou=Groups under your domain dn.
• Click ou=Groups in left panel, then click Create a child entry in right panel.
• Choose mailList in ObjectClasses list, then click Proceed.
• Select mail as RDN, fill necessary values of attributes:

dn: mail=demolist@mydomain.com,ou=Groups,domainName=mydomain.com,o=domains,dc=iredmail,dc=org
accountStatus: active
cn: demolist
enabledService: mail
enabledService: deliver
enabledService: displayedInGlobalAddressBook
mail: demolist@mydomain.com
objectClass: mailList

Now switch to ou=Users under you domain LDAP dn in left panel.

• Expand ou=Users in left panel.
• Find user account which you want to assign to new mail list we created above.
• Click user account in left panel.
• If attribute memberOfGroup exists in right panel:
  • click Add value under it and fill mail address of our new mail list. For example: demolist@mydomain.com
  • Click Update Object to save settings.
• If attribute memberOfGroup doesn't exist in right panel:
  • Click Add new attribute in right panel
  • Choose memberOfGroup in drop-down list.
  • Fill mail address of our new mail list.
  • Click Update Object to save settings.

You can add as many memberOfGroup=xxx as you want, which means this user is assigned to many mail lists.

Here's sample to add external users as mail list members:

dn: memberOfGroup=demolist@mydomain.com,ou=Externals,domainName=mydomain.com,o=domains,dc=iredmail,dc=org
accountstatus: active
enabledservice: mail
enabledservice: deliver
mail: user01@external.com
mail: user02@external.com
memberofgroup: demolist@mydomain.com
objectclass: mailExternalUser

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you don't have any mail list member, Postfix will report error like below:

Aug  1 15:45:42 mail postfix/smtpd[6024]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[1.1.1.1]: 550 5.1.1
<it@domain1.ru>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table; from=<test@domain1.ru>
 to=<it@domain1.ru> proto=ESMTP helo=<[2.2.2.2]>

Mail list access policies

You can restrict who can send email to this mailing list by adding LDAP attribute accessPolicy. For example:

dn: mail=demolist@mydomain.com,ou=Groups,domainName=mydomain.com,o=domains,dc=iredmail,dc=org
accesspolicy: domain
...

This access restriction is implemented in iRedAPD (a simple Postfix policy server), iRedMail has it enabled by default.

Available access policies are:

• public: no restrictions.
• domain: all users under same domain are allowed to send email to this mail list.
• subdomain: all users under same domain and sub-domains are allowed to send email to this mail list.
• membersOnly: only members of this mail list are allowd.
• moderatorsOnly: only moderators of this mail list are allowed.
• memebersAndModeratorsOnly: only members and moderators of this mail list are allowed.

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