[Kolab-devel] [issue1043] Kolab missing the concept of "email aliases"

[Fabio Pietrosanti / Khamsa SA]

New submission from Fabio Pietrosanti / Khamsa SA <kolab at khamsa.ch>:

It would be very helpfull to be able to create email aliases within kolab and 
change the name of "Distribution List".
DL are only groups of emails used for authorization within Cyrus ACL shared 
folder support and are not used for mailing.
IMHO they should be called "Groups", because the concept of "Groups" is applied 
to an authorization scenario.

Most email usage require the availability to create email aliases.
I don't mean email aliases of a single users but an email address behind that 
there are several internal/external users.

Example: info at company.com directed to user1 at company.com, user2 at company2.com, 
pr at company3.com

Another situation is when you have several email domains which have a 
common "user" part, like "sales@" or "development@" but which point to only 1 
mailbox address.

So email alias management in the sense of "an email address which forward 
emails to several internal and/or external users".

It could be confused as a mailing list, but mailing lists have other rich 
features such as subscription, moderation, authorization, archival and are 
managed by special software like Sympa or Mailman.

We can refer to that feature as "email group aliases" but imho it's not the 
right definition.

IMHO it should be a standard account without any mailbox or with a flag stating 
that's an email aliases.

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priority: feature
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title: Kolab missing the concept of "email aliases"
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