Email alias on alias server

Submitted by zombiitv on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 00:17

Using CentOS 5.4 and Postfix 2.6.5

After spending a great deal of time on this issue, I have come to the conclusion that I have found two related bugs and it is not something that I'm doing wrong.

I have 30+ alias servers setup that I need to have email addresses and forwarders for users on the alias servers.

If I create a user in the parent domain, then create email aliases for that user, everything works as advertised; however, if I create a user in the alias domain, then create email aliases for that user, they do not show up in virtualmin.

Example 1 - working

create user dan in parent.com - two users are created - dan@parent.com and dan-parent.com

create email alias with option for local delivery - one goes to dump@somewhere.com and one goes to dan-parent.com

everyting works with this setup and the manual entry for the alias is shown as this - "dan::dump@somewhere.com:local dan-parent.com". Everything is working like it should

Example 2 - broken

create user dan in example.com (alias to parent.com) - two users are created - dan@example.com and dan-example.com

create email alias with option for local delivery - one goes to dump@somewhere.com and one goes to dan-example.com

The mail aspect of this set up works fine (i.e. the virtual servers and mail aliases are listed properly in postfix, and the mail is delivered properly) However, I do not see the entries in Virtualmin->Edit Mail Aliases (the table is blank and there is nothing in the manual entry field either).

The problem comes in that I need to have the ability to manipulate these settings via the remote api, but if virtualmin doesn't see the entries, then I cannot manipulate them.

I have a post in the virtualmin forum that explains how I set the users and aliases up. (complex aliases is the title from this morning)

The second bug that I have an issue with is that I cannot use the user name with the @ symbol to access the email in Thunderbird. I have to use the - symbol. When I create a user in the non alias domain then the @ symbol works fine but it does not work with an alias server user. I think these items are related but I'm not 100% sure.

Thanks

Dan

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 02:46

Have you tried using the API to manage the aliases on the user instead of managing aliases directly?

You can use the list-users API command to get all addresses and forwarding destinations for a user, and the modify-user command with the add-email and remove-email parameters to add and remove additional addresses for the user.

Does that help?

Submitted by zombiitv on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 11:30

That will work, I would recommend that you update the "modify-user" documentation to include the latest changes that you have made to this function. In the docs, there is no mention of "add-forward address" or "del-forward address"

What about using @ in the user name to log in with Thunderbird? Any idea why it works with the parent level user and not the alias user?

Dan

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 12:00

Thanks, those options got added recently so the docs may need re-generation.

The best way to see what args a command really supports is to SSH into your virtualmin system as root and run something like :

virtualmin modify-user --help

Regarding that @ issue, what error do you get from thunderbird exactly?

Submitted by zombiitv on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 20:14

Everything is working as I want it to now... I changed the status to closed - thank you for your help

Dan