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PostPosted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:00 pm    Post subject: Complete Exchange replacement with Collaboration features. Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Bit of a brain ache setting up imapd - RTFM and IGNORE THE HOWTO - it's well out of date.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

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Cannot authenticate to server with as cyrus


/var/adm/auth.log gives

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unable to open Berkely DB


I'll find out why eventually tho. Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Got past that problem.

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

More to follow.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's fairly average, they should really sort that out.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hehe I got caught with that aswell Wink

Just installed Samsung Contact, haven't got to grips with it yet though.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sweet!

Just saved me a few hours there.

Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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