Mail Forwarding broken

[Christian Tardif]

Not on my test environment.  You made me think I may be wrong, so I just 
checked. And the test domain I'm using for testing this feature, 
"forward account" doesn't get a mailbox.

Christian...

On 2014-01-15 10:29, Christian Hügel wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
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