Re: [SM-PLUGINS] virtusertable plugin doesn't take proper e-mail address for composing emails

[Daniel B <db...@ed...>]

Helo Ted,

Yes I have seen this behaviour. My goal was to signal this so that the 
cirtusertable would take care about this sending email part. I know that the 
virtusertable seems to work well - and in fact I installed it properly and 
it fits my needs as for the login (I'm thankful for that) - but for sending 
e-mails I think that it should also take care of doing the inverted job so 
that the webmail user doesn't have to change his email address and enter it 
explicitly and manually in the options.
This is the reason of my request.

It should by default use the translated and available email address in 
virtusertable instead of using his use...@my.... If he puts 
explicitly an e-mail address in the options, then it would take this one in 
the reply-to field of the sent e-mail.

Do you think this would be feasable? To be honest, I think that this 
virtusertable plugin misses something here to be complete, as everybody 
would be expecting thisplugin to take into account the e-mail translation at 
every stage in squirrelmail once the plugin is installed.

Thanks for your consideration.

Regards,
Daniel


> Daniel,
>
> As far as I know the virtusertable plugin matches email aliases listed in 
> the virtusertable to the unix username so that when you login to the imap 
> server it matches the unix username rather than the email alias.
>
> This plugin is extremely valuable when the email alias isn't the imap 
> login name and I use it on my system.
>
>
> When you send a message using squirrelmail it uses the "email_address" 
> field listed in the users squirrelmail prefs file.
>
> I believe that if this field is blank then the default is to use the unix 
> username.
>
> The customer should simply goto Options, Personal Information, and then 
> E-Mail Address to set this field.
>
> What we do is to set the email_address field during account creation. When 
> a new account is created on our servers we create a custom squirrelmail 
> preferences file based on that users fullname and email address.
>
> Ted Hatfield
> PrismNet Ltd.
> 512-821-2991 Ext: 4943
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Daniel B wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have seen that when I use the virtusertable plugin (based on the
>> sendmail's /etc/mail/virtusertable information), I can properly login to
>> squirrelmail with the full e-mail address, but when I want to compose a
>> message and when I send it, then the received e-mail contains the unix 
>> name
>> instead of the correct e-mail address (based on the virtusertable file
>> also).
>>
>> Hence if I login as jo...@my..., which is a unix account named
>> 'john-mydomain', then the sent e-mail will be coming from
>> joh...@my... instead.
>> So virtusertable should also provide this inverted search in the
>> virtusertable and send back the proper "From:" header in the e-mail so 
>> that
>> the client can answer through the "reply" button properly.
>>
>> I am using squirrelmail V 1.4.22-2 on CentOS 6.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
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