Mail Forwarding broken

[Christian Hügel]

Hi Timotheus,

so, if I´m understanding you correctly there is no way to have mail 
forwarding working
without creating real mailboxes for that account?! This can´t be true :/

Regards,

Christian



Am 09-12-2013 18:09, schrieb Timotheus Pokorra:
> 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