Kontact client Forward->Redirect Issue

[jayk]

Kontact has a nice feature that lets you forward an email as a redirect. With kolab however, the redirected email is rejected, presumably as is is looked at as a forged email. When trying to do a Forward->Redirect I get an error message like this:

Code:

Sending failed:

Message sending failed since the following recipients were rejected by the server:

destination@kolabdomain.com (The server responded: "5.7.1 <origin@otherdomain.com>: Sender address rejected: Invalid sender")

The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder.

The following transport protocol was used:

kolabdomain.com

I've done some searching on this and have come across the mention of delegates. I didn't come across enough information to find out if this is what would allow me to work around this issue or how to set it up.

If anyone else has managed to work around this successfully and do redirects with Kontact, I would be interested in seeing their solution.

Thanks,
Jason

[Gunnar Wrobel]

The Kolab-Server does not allow you to send mail with anything other than the addresses specifically designated to you.

So if you are user@example.org you are not allowed to send mails, pretending you come from another domain like you apparently do. Even delegates won't help you there as pretending to be somebody else is general not a good idea when sending mails. Basically these are the joe jobs done by spammers.

[jayk]

I understand not wanting to accept addresses from just anywhere. It's too bad the Kontact feature can't be made to work with authenticated senders. I have a client who has a couple of general mailboxes. When a message comes into the general box, it often needs to be forwarded to someone else in the organization. With the redirect feature in Kontact, after the message is redirected, that person can then just hit reply to the email rather than hitting reply, stripping out the address it was forwarded from and replacing it with the original sender's address.

Jason

[xehqter]

Is that rule enforced by postfix or the kolab scripts? Would modifying /usr/share/kolabd/resmgr/scripts/kolabfilter.php to ignore the sender check bypass the issue?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

No, I think this is something in the smtppolicy script. I think I modified this once for a customer, too. But I didn't check the code now.

Cheers,

Gunnar

[notHerbert]

My Kontact Redirect works - kinda.
When I press 'e', a dialog pops up, I enter a valid user address and
click 'send', and it goes - except it goes to one of my smtp accounts
- not the address I entered.

Code:

From: Some Sender <sender@example.com> (resent from Me Here <me@my.site>)
  To: one of my SMTP accounts - not the address I entered

It looks like the same as this confirmed
KDE-PIM bug found here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/151485

However Kontact inline forwarding works here correctly.