diff --git a/management/mailconfig.py b/management/mailconfig.py
index 48f87e4a..90c3824b 100755
--- a/management/mailconfig.py
+++ b/management/mailconfig.py
@@ -254,9 +254,10 @@ def add_mail_user(email, pw, privs, env):
 		return ("Invalid email address.", 400)
 	elif not validate_email(email, mode='user'):
 		return ("User account email addresses may only use the ASCII letters A-Z, the digits 0-9, underscore (_), hyphen (-), and period (.).", 400)
-	elif is_dcv_address(email):
+	elif is_dcv_address(email) and len(get_mail_users(env)) > 0:
 		# Make domain control validation hijacking a little harder to mess up by preventing the usual
-		# addresses used for DCV from being user accounts.
+		# addresses used for DCV from being user accounts. Except let it be the first account because
+		# during box setup the user won't know the rules.
 		return ("You may not make a user account for that address because it is frequently used for domain control validation. Use an alias instead if necessary.", 400)
 
 	# validate password