Quoting "Diego M. Vadell" <dvadell at linuxclusters.com.ar>:
> 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.
Hm, actually I think you are right and outgoing mails should not
necessarily be redirected according to the alias. Please open a bug
about this so that we get some comments from the other devs.
Cheers,
Gunnar
>
> 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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