Postfix and LDAP aliases

[Diego M. Vadell]

Hi Gunnar,

   Maybe its just us using the address book incorrectly. It's only that when I 
send email to an address outside Kolab, I'm don't see the use of it being 
redirected just because it is an alias and not the primary email address. And 
it confuses users. 

   If there were a good reason, then great! there it is. But as I can't 
picture it in my newbieness, I ask.

   In particular, I migrated an addressbook to Kolab, and the users used the 
aliases to store "related email addresses". So instead of having John Doe 
from LinuxClusters with it's email, they got LinuxClusters and three or four 
email addresses. That's why this became a problem.

   Again, maybe it's just us using the address book incorrectly.

Thank you for answering
 -- Diego.



On Thursday 25 September 2008 16:45:13 Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> Quoting "Diego M. Vadell" <dvadell at linuxclusters.com.ar>:
> > Hi,
> >
> >     I installed Kolab 2.2.0 and I'm very happy with it. I has been
> > stable, performant and easy to administer so far.
> >
> >     I added a contact in the Addressbook. This guy has a mail address,
> > and an alias. I thought that this was only so it would appear in the LDAP
> > address book, but when I send and email to the alias, the email gets
> > rewritten and goes to the primary email.
> >
> >    So I think I can go behind scene and reconfigure postfix not to do
> > that. But what is the rationale for that? In what scenario is this
> > useful?
>
> It has been sometimes used for some special address rewriting in
> connection with posting to shared folders. But that was also just a
> hack. I don't believe it is functionality that is being used very
> often. On the other hand we didn't have many people complaining about
> it either. I did not yet fully understand why it is a problem for you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>
> > Thanks in advance, and sorry for my poor english.
> >
> >  -- Diego.
> >
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