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{{Article Infobox|{{admin}}||{{ZCS 5.0}}|}}I manually created an "everyone" list on my 75-seat system, which required a lot of painstaking sifting through the list of users, some of whom aren't people.

Then I needed a second such list, with a couple of people removed, for weather announcements.

There's no easy way to do that on Zimbra.

So I wrote a script:

 # copy a Zimbra distribution list's members to a newly created list
 # final version with all the test scaffolding removed
 #
 # written Wed Sep  2 10:11:00 EDT 2009 by jra@vicimarketing.com
 
 OLD=$1
 NEW=$2
  
 # if we're not user 'zimbra', fix it
 [ $USER = "zimbra" ] || exec su - zimbra -c "$0 $*"
 
 # create the new list, first
 zmprov cdl $NEW
 
 # then add all the users.
 zmprov gdl $OLD |
    grep 'zimbraMailForwardingAddress' |
    sed -e "s/zim.*ess:/adlm $NEW /" |
    zmprov

This works ok on my 5.0.18 system; YMMV.  Hat tip to elgato for the push in the right direction.
Great!  Works a treat in 7.2.0

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