[Kolab-devel] forwarding mails to external addresses

[Alain Spineux]

On 4/5/08, Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> hi there,
>
>  will there be (or is there already) built-in support for mail
>  forwarding to external addresses?

Yes, its built in !

When you login as the user, you have a different view
 with a forward and vacation pannel !
This vien is no available from manager, but it should !

> when people leave my server they
>  still want mails posted to their old address (on my server) to be
>  forwarded to their new address (on someone else's server). with my
>  former mailsystem i just added some mail forwards to LDAP and postfix
>  used LDAP as virtual lookup table.
>
>  i added this functionality to LDAP+postfix by some hacks, but it would
>  be much nicer (also for my customers who run their own kolab server)
>  if this could be configurable TTW (kolab-webadmin).
>
>  here is my postfix stanza:
>
>  (root at grimnir) {~} # cat /etc/kolab/templates/ldapforwarding.cf.template
>  KOLAB_META_START
>  TARGET=/etc/postfix/ldapforwarding.cf
>  PERMISSIONS=0640
>  OWNERSHIP=root:root
>  KOLAB_META_END
>  # (c) 2007 Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>
>  #
>  # This program is Free Software under the GNU General Public License (>=v2).
>  # Read the file COPYING that comes with this packages for details.
>
>  # this file is automatically written by the Kolab config backend
>  # manual additions are lost unless made to the template in the Kolab
>  config directory
>
>  #
>  # LDAP Forwarding support for postfix
>  #
>  server_host = @@@ldap_uri@@@
>  search_base = cn=forward,@@@base_dn@@@
>  query_filter =
>  (&(alias=%s)(&(!(kolabDeleteflag=*))(&(objectClass=kolabNamedObject)(objectClass=kolabInetOrgPerson))))
>  result_attribute = cn
>  result_filter = %s
>  search_timeout = 15
>  scope = sub
>  bind = yes
>  bind_dn = @@@php_dn@@@
>  bind_pw = @@@php_pw@@@
>  version = 3
>
>
>  ???
>  mike
>
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Alain Spineux
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