Mail Forwarding broken

[Christian Tardif]

That's really unclear to me... Is this something actually on the dev 
side or if it is something we can already use?  If so, where is that hidden?

Christian...

On 2013-12-09 15:17, Daniel Hoffend wrote:
> Good evening
>
> now i've some time to answer with more details. I sent my previous 
> answer only to timotheos from my phone by accident.
>
> TL:DR: you can add multiple "Primary Mail" Attributes.
>
> The reason why "Secondary Email" is not available is bound the the 
> availability of the "alias" attribute. Somehow the ldap "alias" 
> attribute is only available within the kolabInetOrgPerson schema. For 
> the MailForwarding Entries the kolab schema would be a bad choice, 
> cause kolabd will filter for kolab accounts and create imap accounts 
> if they don't exist yet. For mail forwarding (where only postfix has 
> to do some work) imap accounts are not necessary.
>
> But what you can do is: attach multiple "mail" attributes per 
> forwarding entry.
>
> That's why we choose "list" for the mail attribute in the user-type. 
> Tbh, the translation "mail-attribute" -> "Primary Mail" is a bit 
> missleading for Forwarding entries, but it works and it is the same 
> what the kolad team included in the vanilla 3.1 package as well.
>
>
> -- 
> greetings
> Daniel Hoffend
>
>
> ------ Originalnachricht ------
> Von: "Timotheus Pokorra" <timotheus at pokorra.de>
> An: "Christian Hügel" <christian.huegel at stonebyte.de>; "Daniel 
> Hoffend" <dh at dotlan.net>
> Cc: users at lists.kolab.org
> Gesendet: 09.12.2013 18:09:32
> Betreff: Re: Mail Forwarding broken
>> Hello Christian,
>> I have now investigated this myself.
>> It seems that secondary addresses are not available for user type
>> "Mail Forwarding".
>> I can only see "Primary Email Address" and "External Email Address(es)".
>> "External Email Address(es)" only makes it possible to send from such
>> an address, and would not have any effect on mail forwarding.
>>
>> I think you have to create a local user for the mail forwarding
>> account, even if that creates a mailbox for that user.
>>
>> I find it strange though that the automatic calculation of the primary
>> email address does not work for the user type "Mail Forwarding".
>>
>> @Daniel: Perhaps you can give some advice how to use the mail
>> forwarding, since you implemented it, as far as I can remember?
>>
>> I have now added an automated test:
>> https://github.com/tpokorra/kolab3_tbits_scripts/blob/master/pySeleniumTests/testEmailForwarding.py 
>>
>> which tests for the delivery to local addresses, and that seems to work.
>>
>> All the best,
>>   Timotheus
>>
>> On 5 December 2013 22:00, Christian Hügel 
>> <christian.huegel at stonebyte.de> wrote:
>>>  OK, I'm getting closer:
>>>
>>>  if I chose "Mail Forwarding" and put the alias test at example.com in
>>>  "Secondary Mail" the mailboxes are not created.
>>>  I place the real mailbox, to where the mails will be forwarded, in the
>>>  field "Mail forward to"
>>>  Now I send a test mail from a account "outside" kolab to
>>>  test at example.com and I see from the logs that the mail get 
>>> delivered to
>>>  root at server.com (the actual server and it's root user)
>>>
>>>  Something's wrong?!
>>>
>>>  Thanks
>>>
>>>  Chris
>>>
>>>  Am 05.12.2013 21:15, schrieb Christian Hügel:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>>  maybe I'm misunderstanding something here but here's my point:
>>>>
>>>>  1. Mail aliases
>>>>
>>>>  I have 2 different domains domain1 and domain2.
>>>>
>>>>  domain1 has a user test.user at domain1.com
>>>>  domain2 has no users
>>>>
>>>>  If I want to add a alias from domain2, lets say 
>>>> another.user at domain2.com
>>>>  I would add this mail as secondary mail of test.user at domain1.com
>>>>
>>>>  So far so good, this works as expected. But if I want to add a
>>>>  alias/forwarding mail to a domain "outside" kolab this doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>>  As I'm understanding the Mail Forwarding option in kolab webadmin, 
>>>> this
>>>>  feature should do exactly that...BUT..instead it creates "real
>>>>  mailboxes" like Trash Spam etc on kolab and delivery is fails:
>>>>
>>>>  Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
>>>>
>>>>  How can I achieve doing a mail forwarding to another domain 
>>>> (outside kolab)
>>>>
>>>>  I`m kind of confused
>>>>
>>>>  Thank you
>>>>
>>>>  Christian
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