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should deactivating a mailbox also set active=0 on the associated alias table entry? #643

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benjyamon opened this issue Jul 25, 2022 · 0 comments

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When using PostfixAdmin to deactivate a mailbox, I notice the associated entry in the alias table remains active=1.

We noticed this because if a mailbox is set up to actually deliver to another final destination address, but is deactivated, then on our setup, senders to this address will get BOTH a NonDelivery Report AND their message will be forwarded to the final destination address :(

(If the forwarding mailbox has it's "Deliver to the local mailbox" UNchecked, then there is NO NDR/bounce back to senders, and the forwarding just works - so the Active Y/N toggle does nothing!)

If deactivating a mailbox in PostfixAdmin also marked the associated alias table entry active=0, then our setup would work as expected.

Granted our setup's behavior has to do with how we prepare the list of what addresses to accept/reject (from the alias table only) and get that out to our boundary / receiving / spam scanning postfix machines -- we could recode there to more intelligently look at not only the alias table but also check active status of correlated mailbox table entries. . . it just seems like this may be considered a bug by the PostfixAdmin project -- like why does the alias table even have an active column if it never toggles?

Thanks in advance for your consideration if this is a bug (or a feature!?)

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