Multiple Virtual Aliases for Single External Mail Account

[tim@…]

In the "External accounts aliases" section under the "Virtual Mail Domains" subsection under "Mail", I can add one alias that will forward to an external account.

I want to add a second (and third) alias for that same external account, but when I try to do that, it tells me "External account name@… already exists".

I tried setting up a chain of forwarders, by providing an extant alias as the target of a third alias, but that failed in the "Save changes" step, saying "name@… is a mail alias. Alias of aliases are not allowed."

I'm used to Unix mail alias files where alias chains and multiple aliases are a normal and useful thing to do. The current restrictions seem arbitrary, and they reduce the power of an otherwise very useful system.

[javier.amor.garcia@…]

Fixed in [17366] and [17367].

@tim: Thanks for the report. It is fixed now but if you don't want to wait for the packages there is the hotfix instructions:

1) Download the new version of ExternalAliases?.pm ->  http://trac.ebox-platform.com/export/17367/trunk/client/mail/src/EBox/Mail/Model/ExternalAliases.pm 2) Use the download fiel to replace /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Mail/Model/ExternalAliases.pm 3) Restart the eBox interface webserver with the command : '/etc/init.d/ebox apache restart'

Cheers,

Javier

[tim@…]

Many thanks for the speedy fix!

-- Tim