Mail Forwarding broken

[Christian Tardif]

There's something I don't understand... When I need to create a mail  
forwarder...  I create, for a particular domain, a Mail Forwarding  
account, provide a Given Name and Surname, put the Primary Email  
Address as the domain email, and fill the "Forward Mail To" with the  
email address where I want to send the mails to.

It's working as expected. Not on your side ?


-- 
Christian...


Quoting Christian Hügel <christian.huegel at stonebyte.de>:

> 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
>
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