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Trying to create a mail forward.  Need info@mydomain.com to forward to kerry@mydomain.com. 

When using MySQL command on vmail database:

UPDATE alias SET goto='kerry@mydomain.com' WHERE username='info@mydomain.com';

I get the error:

ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'username' in 'where clause'

What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Unable to forward

qwazi wrote:

ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'username' in 'where clause'

SQL table "vmail.alias" doesn't have column "username". It's "address".

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Re: Unable to forward

Thanks but now I'm getting the same error for 'goto'

When I use SHOW COLUMNS FROM vmail.alias it shows the address column but no goto column. 

I'm still stuck.

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Re: Unable to forward

Why not follow our tutorial directly?
https://docs.iredmail.org/sql.create.mail.alias.html

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Re: Unable to forward

I tried that.  It's too vague.  I would be asking a lot more questions.

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Re: Unable to forward

OK, I tried following tutorial but I get the same error message.  there is no 'goto' column.

Help?

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Re: Unable to forward

Our tutorial doesn't use "goto" column at all, why did you get the error? What SQL command did you run?

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Re: Unable to forward

Sorry that wasn't your tutorial.
When using your tutorial I am very confused at the syntax.  Here is what I enter:

mysql> INSERT INTO alias ('info@xxxdomain.com', 'xxxdomain.com', 1);

and I get a syntax error.

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mysql> INSERT INTO alias VALUES ('info@xxxdomain.com', 'xxxdomain.com', 1);

tells me Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

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Re: Unable to forward

You didn't follow our tutorial strictly at all, the sql commands on our tutorial have correct syntax, but you didn't use them. Again:
https://docs.iredmail.org/sql.create.mail.alias.html

Compare your sql commands with the ones on tutorial.

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ZhangHuangbin wrote:

You didn't follow our tutorial strictly at all, the sql commands on our tutorial have correct syntax, but you didn't use them. Again:
https://docs.iredmail.org/sql.create.mail.alias.html

Compare your sql commands with the ones on tutorial.

That's why I said initially it's too vague.  I've read that tutorial over and over but I don't understand.  Is the syntax in the tutorial exact?  In other words, should my command look more like this?


INSERT INTO alias (info@xxxdomain.com, xxxdomain.com, active) VALUES ('info@xxxdomain.com', 'xxxdomain.com', 1);


I'm sorry to sound like I'm not following instructions.  Once I understand more about the syntax in your tutorials I'm sure I'll be fine.  I'm new to iredmail but so far I love it.  Just need to understand how to do a few tweaks. 

thanks.

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Re: Unable to forward

Nevermind.  A little testing and I figured it out.  It's really not complicated once you understand how it was written.  However, if you've never done it before, it's nice to have someone explain it.

Thank you.

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Re: Unable to forward

You need to understand syntax of SQL command.

The syntax is:

INSERT INTO <table-name> (<column-name>, <column-name>, ...) VALUES (<value-for-first-column>, <value-for-second-column>, ...);

You missed list of column names.