Mail Forwarding broken

[Christian Tardif]

Yes, I am.

Christian...

On 2014-01-16 03:10, Christian Hügel wrote:
>
> 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
>>>>>
>>>
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