Mail Aliases

[rhultay]

I have a series of e-mail accounts setup in OX, however want to add aliases for these accounts.

I have tried defining the aliases in /etc/mail/aliases, however, it would appear that in main.cf for postfix, there is a specification for ox_virtual_addresses.

How do I add aliases to the database?

[rhultay]

Found a few Tricks

I attempted to use /opt/open-xchange/sbin/changeuser to add aliases to a user, however get the following error message:

user roman.hultay in context 1 could not be changed:
Server response:
primaryMail, Email1 and defaultSenderAddress must be present in set of aliases.

The syntax I was using is: ./changeuser -A oxadmin -P secret -c 1 -u theusername -a useralias@domain.tld

When I try to use MySQL to insert into address_mappings, I do not know the values for 'cid' and 'id' to input, therefore am keeping my hands off.

Any help would be appreciated.

[sledge0303]

I havn't found a solution for adding mail aliases yet, what means it is quite interesting to know how this should work.
All what I know is, it works really fine with OX5.

[mani]

I added the aliases manually in the table "user_attribute".
Maybe this is not right way, but it works...

Just give the 2 Mail-Addresses the same id.
You can get the id for an user in the table "login2user".

For example:

| cid | id | name  | value
| 1   | 4  | alias | [email]mail1@example.com[/email]
| 1   | 4  | alias | [email]mail2@example.com[/email]

Now the user with the id 4 has 2 mail addresses.

greetings mani

[sledge0303]

I see. Many thanks for Information, Mani. Reply by developers regarding mail alias would be appreciated as well and may there's another way to solve this.

[jbaack]

I know this is an old thread but I was going through these trying to solve the same problem. The error message finally made me realize how to do it - you submit a list of aliases and you need to make sure the existing primary email, email1 (if exists) and default sender are all in this list.

so if there is just a primary (also def. sender) do as above but -a primaryemail@domain.tld,newalias@domain.tld

Anyway, this worked for me.