Adding external alias to email groups

Bug
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NethServer Version: 8
Module: Mail

We use a lot of mailing groups in our company and many of these groups have internal and external email addresses.
I have tried creating creating one in the mail module and including external addresses such as user@gmail.com as an external alias, however it gives me an error when trying to save.
Is there something I need to change in the configuration to be able to save, or maybe achieve this in another way?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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I tested it and saving external addresses worked.

Which error message was shown?

Is there something usable in the logs?

Did you tick the checkbox to select the external mail address?

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Hi, I can create an external address

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However when I try to add that external address to a group or distribution list.
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I get this error.
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Let me know if you need the complete trace.

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I could reproduce the issue.

The first step of creating an address for the external address isn’t needed because it creates an address user@gmail.com@domain.tld which isn’t working and leads to the validation error.

You could add the gmail addresses directly as testgroup destinations.

EDIT:

Thanks @sgb77 , you found a bug.

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Thank you mrmarkuz for helping and reporting this issue. For anybody looking for a work around and for my own future reference.
The way to make this work is to create the external user user@gmail.com and add the destination to the intended group in my case testgroup@domain.com
once that is done, go back into the group and add user@gmail.com.

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