Filters: Forwarding instead of redirecting

[stasouv]

Hi Community,

I've searched around on forums, looked in "zmmailbox help filter", and see there is no possibility for actually forwarding mail (not redirecting), ie sending to another user using address of the mailbox applying the filter, not the address of the original sender.

The only workaround I've found for users is to do it through other clients (eg Outlook, Thunderbird etc).

Is there a way to create a filter that will actually forward specific incoming mail? I would expect something like "apply header from" or just "forward".

We are running ZCS 8.0.2

Thanks

[phoenix]

I've searched around on forums, looked in "zmmailbox help filter", and see there is no possibility for actually forwarding mail (not redirecting), ie sending to another user using address of the mailbox applying the filter, not the address of the original sender.

I'm not quite sure I understand your description here. If you mean 'forward' the mail to another user on the same server then the filter rule is supposed to do that.

Is there a way to create a filter that will actually forward specific incoming mail? I would expect something like "apply header from" or just "forward".

A redirect (the correct name for it as per RFC 3028) is a 'forward'. If you think the feature isn't working correctly then file a bug report with full details of the problem and the actual sieve filter - you can dump that via the Admin cli.

[stasouv]

Thank you Bill once more for your reply.

I understand your point, but what I mean is a bit different. Functionality is full, no problem there.

case 1. When a user A forwards manually a mail he got from B to a user C, than C gets a mail from: A. This is forwarding. C replies to A
case 2. When a user A redirects manually a mail he got from B to a user C, than C gets a mail from: B. This is redirecting. C replies to B

This is not my own terminology, in Zimbra web client you may manually forward or redirect a message, exactly like the above examples, and these are the words used: forward and redirect.

However, when in filters, the only possibility there is, is to redirect (case 2). What I am looking for, is for functionality in filters to forward (case 1). It's not that it's there and not functioning. It's not there at all... And the available actions for filter are:

# zmmailbox help filter

....

  {actions}:
    keep
    discard
    fileinto "/path"
    tag "tag"
    flag "flag"
    mark read|flagged|priority
    redirect "address"
    reply "body-template"
    notify "address" "subject-template" "body-template" ["max-body-size(bytes)"]
    stop

[phoenix]

The correct terminology is "redirect", I assume from your comments that you see 'forward' in the Web UI that you're on a version other that the current ZCS 8,.x? The Web UI has been changed to reflect the fact the it should be "redirect" as per the RFC and the function also reflects the behaviour required in the RFC - ZCS is always RFC compliant (as far as I'm aware).

[stasouv]

I see your point. Ok, apparently there is no way to do what I want... Perhaps a zimlet elsewhere.

For the record, we have version 8.0.2 installed, as I posted opening this thread. And here is a snapshot of the right-button menu... Forward and Redirect are present...

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Thanks for your time.

If anyone knows of a zimlet to add functionality, please share.