Complete Exchange replacement with Collaboration features.

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Author: ShaolinTigerLocation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:00 pm    Post subject: Complete Exchange replacement with Collaboration features.
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This is the project I'm working on at the moment..

I was considered total OSS, Exim/Courier IMAP/Mozilla calendering etc but it's still all pretty klunky and hard to fit together..

Something like:

1/ Sendmail/Exim/Postfix as a frontend MTA.

2/ An IMAP server (I'd recommend Cyrus, as it provides IMAP/POP daemons, and a single instance store which scales better than the alternatives) as a backend.

3/ Webmail, which is easy with SquirrelMail or similar, looking at the IMAP server.

4/ LDAP for global address books.

5/ Mozilla/Netscape 7/Ximian Evolution as the client.

6/ A WebDAV server (Apache with mod_dav), and the Mozilla calendar for shared calendaring. This should also be sharable with MacOS X users using iCalendar.

This looks like far too much work though..

Also looking at Gordano Messaging Suite ( http://www.gordano.com ) looks nice and is pretty cheap.

I looked at http://www.bynari.net but it doesn't seem so good, the big boys offerings really suck balls (Samsung Contact and SCO's VMS).

http://www.ima.com/iems looks promising too.

Courier was suggsted aswell but it still seems to have some way to go ( http://www.courier-mta.org ).

Something else upcoming is the kroupware lot finishing their server http://kroupware.kde.org.

Plenty to look out for, anyone have any experience of any of these?

Author: b4rtm4nLocation: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 6:39 pm    Post subject:
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Thought you may like to know I'm v close to getting a working Cyrus/squirrell mail system up and running.

Base system Slackware 8.1 (most excellent distro Cool )

cyrus-sasl-2.1.9
cyrus-imapd-2.1.9
squirrelmail-1.2.9

Bit of a brain ache setting up imapd - RTFM and IGNORE THE HOWTO - it's well out of date.
Having a couple of access problems with imap tho.
I can connect and login to imap using imtest fine with no errors.
cyradm comes up with

Quote:
Cannot authenticate to server with as cyrus


/var/adm/auth.log gives

Quote:
unable to open Berkely DB


I'll find out why eventually tho. Wink

Author: b4rtm4nLocation: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:36 pm    Post subject:
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Got past that problem.

sasl is not authenticating through saslauthd so I'm re-compiling for pwcheck.

More to follow.

Author: ShaolinTigerLocation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:40 pm    Post subject:
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Samsung just sent me the Contact CD's to try out, but they only work on Redhat 7.2 which kinda puts me off straight away.

I'm guessing it'll be expensive too.

Author: hadsLocation: New Zealand PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:42 pm    Post subject:
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That's fairly average, they should really sort that out.

Author: b4rtm4nLocation: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 2:28 pm    Post subject:
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Still having imap authentication problems.

error is now OPT algorith MD5 is not available.

Even after explicitly compiling in MD5.

I can only ever connect using --auth plain.

I think I'll depreciate to a 1.* version of Cyrus and try again.

Author: b4rtm4nLocation: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 4:37 pm    Post subject:
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Embarassed

Guess what --- Slackware doesn't come with PAM as a package.

Should've checked instead of assuming.

Compiling PAM so we'll see in a while.


Embarassed

Author: ShaolinTigerLocation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 4:49 pm    Post subject:
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Hehe I got caught with that aswell Wink

Just installed Samsung Contact, haven't got to grips with it yet though.

Author: b4rtm4nLocation: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:11 pm    Post subject:
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Major pisser that. Laughing

RH8 apparently has Cyrus rpms but I don't want to go there.

Just started up Deb3 as I understand it's PAM enabled by default. I don't want to (.)(.) around fully enabling PAM on Slack just to get this working.

Author: ShaolinTigerLocation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:12 pm    Post subject:
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Yeh it does kinda...

But to compile stuff with PAM support you need the dev libraries aswell..

Make sure in dselect you install libpam0g-dev.

Author: b4rtm4nLocation: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:15 pm    Post subject:
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Sweet!

Just saved me a few hours there.

Cool

Author: ShaolinTigerLocation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:26 pm    Post subject:
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Ok can anyone explain to me the basics I need just for e-mail and a Global address list (usable by Outlook/OE/Evolution etc).

I have 2 domain, both external, mx both external, domaina.com and domainb.com, both only have 1 mailbox, a catch all.

Internally there are about 30 mail addresses, at present exchange pulls the catch all account from both domains then sorts them into mailboxes locally so ppl can pull them down (using IMAP preferably so everything is stored on the server). Also we send using Exchange which then forwards to an external SMTP server.

How would I do this on *nix?

With fetchmail/exim and some kind of IMAP server? What about the address book, any ideas?

Author: ShaolinTigerLocation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 6:53 pm    Post subject:
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Ok I've found what I'm looking for and I'm currently downloading it.

RH-EmS..

It seems to be based on Postfix and Cyrus which is all good and runs on RH 7.2.

You can check it out at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rhems

Author: b4rtm4nLocation: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:15 pm    Post subject:
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hehehehe!

This is what I like about collaboration forums.

If you have dozens of people all looking for things then you have an order of magnitude greater chance of finding what you want.

This is great and a piece of piss to install.

Only downer is the need to run RH7.2 but thats not much compared to Exchange. Cool Cool Cool



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