Mail Forwarding broken

[Christian Hügel]

Hi Christian,

yes sure, but for every forward account (primary mail) kolab creates 
real mailboxes with the possibility to login through webmail.
I don´t want this and this is not needed as the name says "forward 
account". Why should a forward account have real mailboxes?


Christian

Am 15-01-2014 16:24, schrieb 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
>>