Zarafa

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Description

http://www.zarafa.com, MS Exchange replacement

The Community version - http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=990

Offers AJAX based webaccess, imap/ical support and Activesync solutions fully opensource. A community version available in which native support of Outlook for 3 users is included.

More licenses can be purchased, see http://www.zarafa.com/content/prices

Installation

Download & Install Zarafa rpms

http://www.zarafa.com/download-community

Distribution = Rhel 4

tar -zxvf zarafa-6.20-rhel4-i386.tar.gz
yum localinstall libvmime*.rpm libical*.rpm zarafa-6*.rpm zarafa-webaccess-6*.rpm zarafa-licensed-6*.rpm

Download & Install alpha smeserver-zarafa rpm

!!! THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE. BEWARE. FOR NON-PRODUCTION TESTING ONLY!!!

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/smeserver-zarafa-0.9-1a.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall smeserver-zarafa-0.9-1a.noarch.rpm

After rpm install executing two action scripts _should_ get you started:

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/zarafa-install
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/zarafa-create-user

Usage

Mail is sent to zarafa, and NOT the users ~\Maildir

Webmail=

Access with browser for a local user

http://server/zarafa

Outlook

To use MS Outlook

Configure, enable and start /etc/init.d/zarafa-licensed

Install the zarafaclient-*.msi add-on contained in the win32 directory of zarafa-*.tar.gz

Zarafa-client & Outlook 2007 0x80040700

Appears to be an issue when the user_plugin=unix finds matching user/group names (SME design):

http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1083

Outlook Client Send/Recieve Error 0x80070057

Outlook 2007 client generates the above error on send and receive if the Zarafa server is added to an existing profile. Creating a new clean profile solved the problem.

http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1048

IMAP

To access mail in zarafa with an email client

Configure your IMAP client to use port 144

Calendar

http://download.zarafa.com/zarafa/release/docs/zarafa_ical_gateway.en.pdf

To access the calendar functions with an iCal client eg, Thunderbird and Lighting

in Tbird/Lightning > New Calendar > on network > ical > http://<domain>:8088/ical/<user>/calendar/

Note, there are problems with reading events created with /webaccess http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1019

Mobiles

To sync the data in zarafa to a compatible device

Install rpm, start service, configure


Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-zarafa component or use this link .