Server Templates - Allow `Primary email address` to be set to enabled/disabled

[shoulders]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4
Webmin version	2.111
Usermin version	2.010
Virtualmin version	7.20.2
Theme version	21.10
Package updates	All installed packages are up to date

Background

If you edit a user you can enable/disable the primary email user

Virtualmin --> Edit Users --> Edit _Virtual Serve Owner Account_ --> Email settings -->Primary email address enabled

the issue

In server templates there is no option to enable/disable the Primary email address

You might want to defined all of your mailbox automatically and do not want a default email address collect dust and spam.

proposed solutions

add the ability to defined if you want a Primary email address enabled to the Mail for domain category

[iliajie]

Hello,

add the ability to defined if you want a Primary email address enabled to the Mail for domain category

This sounds like a good suggestion.

[jcameron]

Would this apply to the domain owner, or to new mailboxes?

[shoulders]

domain owner only

reasons

• If an admin wants more mailboxes, aliases, forwarders, he will add them. You don't generally add emails manually, then disable them
• the domain owner email is always created when a new domain is created this allows an admin to configure emails as he sees fit. ( i.e. does my App need an email address or is pointless.)

additional

• sub-servers do not have a domain owner account
• add into the tooltip this option will have no effect on sub-servers as they do not have an owner email account

[jcameron]

So we do want to have some contact email for each domain presumably - maybe if the primary email is disabled, we should force an off-site contact email address to be entered on the domain creation form?

[iliajie]

I think it should be a radio button with three options, like Disabled, System Default Admin Email, and Virtual Server Email Address .. may be?

[shoulders]

So we do want to have some contact email for each domain presumably - maybe if the primary email is disabled, we should force an off-site contact email address to be entered on the domain creation form?

• Not for me. I want the email address off, forwarding should be optional and not forced otherwise I am just causing more admin work.
• this is not to disable the owner's mailbox
• If the email address is primary email address is disabled, I think the system emails should still get delivered to the owners mailbox (need to test this) which is how it works on cPanel system mailbox which has no email address publicly available.

I think it should be a radio button with three options, like Disabled, System Default Admin Email, and Virtual Server Email Address

@iliajie Are these options for the forwarding option and can you just clarify the options for me please

• Disabled = obvious
• System Default Admin Email =
• Virtual Server Email Address =

[iliajie]

@iliajie Are these options for the forwarding option and can you just clarify the options for me please

• Disabled = obvious
• System Default Admin Email =
• Virtual Server Email Address =
• Disabled: Tells Let's Encrypt not to send any notifications for any accounts.

• System Default Admin Email: Configures certbot to instruct Let's Encrypt to send notifications for all domains to a unified email address, such as webmin-system@server.com.

• Virtual Server Email Address: Configures certbot to instruct Let's Encrypt to send notifications to the email address associated with each domain specifically, like user@example.com.

However, considering this now, it should actually be a dropdown with four options not three, as technically, we can use --register-unsafely-without-email for a specific domain to disable notifications only for that domain.

[shoulders]

@iliajie

Disabled = obvious System Default Admin Email = Virtual Server Email Address =

These are all options for handling lets encrypt notifications/emails, which is welcomed as reference here:

https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/how-to-disable-lets-encrypt-renewal-emails/128207/9

but they don't directly related to disabling the primary email address on a domain owners account, unless these are in addition to that and it is useful to add them here.

Have I missed some of the conversation 😄