Mail Forwarding broken

[Christian Hügel]

Hi Christian,

ok, thanks for your reply. Are you also using Timotheus multidomain 
script? I´m asking because that´s the only difference to a standard 
kolab 3.1 setup.
I have to investigate this issue deeper.

Regards, Christian

Am 16-01-2014 03:05, schrieb 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
>>>> 
>>