Mail Forwarding broken

[Nikolai Maziashvili]

Hi Christian,

As far as i know it doesn't have to be "real" accounts, aliases will suffice perfectly.

Regards,
Nikolai

On Wednesday 15 January 2014 13:40:32 Christian Hügel wrote:
> 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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