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SOGo - Scaleable OpenGroupware.org
SOGo is a groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and the SOPE application server. It focuses on scalability.
SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients through the use of standard protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV and GroupDAV.
Once configured, SOGo offers multiple ways to access the calendaring and messaging data. Your users can either use a web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple iCal, or a mobile device to access the same information.
There is a separate Howto for installing the Funambol middleware that allows SyncML mobile device synchronisation with SOGo.
Maintainer
Stéphane de Labrusse AKA Stephdl
The original work has been made by nethesis. Many thanks to all previous developers
Requirements
SOGo requires SME 8 or SME 9
Install
For SME 8
You need to activate Stephdl, epel and sogo repository
db yum_repositories set stephdl repository \
BaseURL http://mirror.de-labrusse.fr/smeserver/\$releasever \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
Name "Mirror de Labrusse" \
GPGKey http://mirror.de-labrusse.fr/RPM-GPG-KEY \
Visible yes \
status disabled
db yum_repositories set sogo repository \
BaseURL http://inverse.ca/downloads/SOGo/RHEL5/\$basearch \
EnableGroups yes \
GPGCheck no \
Name "Inverse SOGo Repository" \
Visible yes \
status disabled
db yum_repositories set epel repository \
Name 'Epel - EL5' \
BaseUrl 'http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch' \
MirrorList 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL \
Visible no \
status disabled
signal-event yum-modify
This contrib is currently held in several repositories, so the following commands will install it on your smeserver. For SME 8 , You need to activate Stephdl, epel and sogo repository
yum --enablerepo=stephdl,epel,sogo install smeserver-sogo
You will then need to activate the database changes etc. The 'official' way is to perform
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
For SME 9
You need to activate Stephdl, epel and sogo repository
db yum_repositories set stephdl repository \
BaseURL http://mirror.de-labrusse.fr/smeserver/\$releasever \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
Name "Mirror de Labrusse" \
GPGKey http://mirror.de-labrusse.fr/RPM-GPG-KEY \
Visible yes \
status disabled
db yum_repositories set sogo repository \
BaseURL http://inverse.ca/downloads/SOGo/RHEL6/\$basearch \
EnableGroups yes \
GPGCheck no \
Name "Inverse SOGo Repository" \
Visible yes \
status disabled
db yum_repositories set epel repository \
Name 'Epel - EL6' \
BaseUrl 'http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch' \
MirrorList 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL \
Visible no \
status disabled
signal-event yum-modify
This contrib is currently held in several repositories, so the following commands will install it on your smeserver. For SME 9 , You need to activate Stephdl, epel, fws and sogo repository
yum --enablerepo=stephdl,epel,sogo,fws install smeserver-sogo
You will then need to activate the database changes etc. The 'official' way is to perform
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
Usage
To access webmail and calenders, open the url http://yourdomain.net/SOGo
If you disable webmail access from within SmeServer email panel, opening http://yourdomain.net/webmail you'll be redirected to SOGo.
Log
All events are logged in the relevant log file
less /var/log/sogo/sogo.log
Documentation
Please RTFM instead of raising bugs against smeserver-sogo :)
You have more documentation available here on all SOGo's aspects
You can fine tune thunderbird to be a pure "heavy" client for SOGo. See the Documentation
Thunderbird Configuration
You are encouraged to use Thunderbird ESR (Extended Support Release) and corresponding compatible Lightning plugin. According to Mozilla Team "Thunderbird Extended Support Release (ESR) is intended for groups who deploy and maintain the desktop environment in large organizations such as universities and other schools, county or city governments and businesses". Furthermore the latest releases of Lightning plugin is fully SOGo compatibile, so no more need of a SOGo customized version.
1.) From a Windows client create the folder "SOGo-plugins\WINNT_x86-msvc" in your Primary ibay "html" folder (e.g. \\<SME server name>\Primary\hmtl\SOGo-plugins\WINNT_x86-msvc)
2.) Download the latest Lightning, Connector and Integrator plugins from [1] and place them in the "WINNT_x86-msvc" folder.
3.) Rename "sogo-integrator-<version>-sogo-demo.xpi" to "sogo-integrator-<version>-sogo.xpi". (This is optional)
4.) Open the "sogo-integrator-<version>-sogo.xpi" file with your favorite zip program (it is just a renamed zip file. 7-zip works nicely for this) and edit the file "\chrome\content\sogo-integrator\extensions.rdf".
Change the following lines:
<Seq about="http://inverse.ca/sogo-integrator/extensions"
isi:updateURL="http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/plugins/updates.php?plugin=%ITEM_ID%&version=%ITEM_VERSION%&platform=%PLATFORM%">
<li>
<Description
em:id="sogo-integrator@inverse.ca"
em:name="SOGo Integrator"/>
</li>
<li>
<Description
em:id="sogo-connector@inverse.ca"
em:name="SOGo Connector"/>
</li>
</Seq>
To read: (change the server address to your server and add the Lightning plugin to the extensions list): (Then save the "extensions.rdf" back to the same place in the "sogo-integrator-<version>-sogo.xpi" file and then save the .xpi file back on the server in the "\\<SME server name>\Primary\hmtl\SOGo-plugins\WINNT_x86-msvc" folder.)
<Seq about="http://inverse.ca/sogo-integrator/extensions"
isi:updateURL="https://<sme server name.domain>/SOGo-plugins/updates.php?plugin=%ITEM_ID%&version=%ITEM_VERSION%&platform=%PLATFORM%">
<li>
<Description
em:id="sogo-integrator@inverse.ca"
em:name="SOGo Integrator"/>
</li>
<li>
<Description
em:id="sogo-connector@inverse.ca"
em:name="SOGo Connector"/>
</li>
<li>
<Description
em:id="{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}"
em:name="Lightning"/>
</li>
</Seq>
5.) Create the file "updates.php" in the "SOGo-plugins" folder
6.) Add the following lines to the file: (Please note you must customize the "version =>", "filename =>" and "<em:updateLink>http://<sme server name.domain>/SOGo-plugins/<?php echo $plugin["filename"] ?></em:updateLink>" in the lines below!)
<?php
/* updates.php - this file is part of SOGo
*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Inverse inc.
*
* Author: Wolfgang Sourdeau <wsourdeau@inverse.ca>
*
* This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
* any later version.
*
* This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
* the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
/* This script handles the automatic propagation of extensions pertaining to a
SOGo site. It requires PHP 4.1.0 or later. */
$plugins
= array( "sogo-connector@inverse.ca"
=> array( "application" => "thunderbird",
"version" => "0.99",
"filename" => "sogo-connector-0.99.xpi" ),
"sogo-integrator@inverse.ca"
=> array( "application" => "thunderbird",
"version" => "0.99",
"filename" => "sogo-integrator-0.99-sogo.xpi" ),
"{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}"
=> array( "application" => "thunderbird",
"version" => "0.9.9",
"filename" => "lightning-0.9.9-inverse.win32.xpi" ));
$applications
= array( "thunderbird" => "<em:id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>1.5</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>2.0.*</em:maxVersion>",
"firefox" => "<em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>1.5</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>2.0.*</em:maxVersion>" );
$pluginname = $_GET["plugin"];
$plugin =& $plugins[$pluginname];
$application =& $applications[$plugin["application"]];
if ( $plugin ) {
$platform = $_GET["platform"];
if ( $platform
&& file_exists( $platform . "/" . $plugin["filename"] ) ) {
$plugin["filename"] = $platform . "/" . $plugin["filename"];
}
elseif ( !file_exists( $plugin["filename"] ) ) {
$plugin = false;
}
}
if ( $plugin ) {
header("Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
echo ('<?xml version="1.0"?>' . "\n");
?>
<!DOCTYPE RDF>
<RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#">
<Description about="urn:mozilla:extension:<?php echo $pluginname ?>">
<em:updates>
<Seq>
<li>
<Description>
<em:version><?php echo $plugin["version"] ?></em:version>
<em:targetApplication>
<Description><?php echo $applications[$plugin["application"]] ?>
<em:updateLink>https://<sme server name.domain>/SOGo-plugins/<?php echo $plugin["filename"] ?></em:updateLink>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>
</Description>
</li>
</Seq>
</em:updates>
</Description>
</RDF>
<?php
} else {
header("Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8", true, 404);
echo( 'Plugin not found' );
}
?>
(You will have to update this file everytime you update the plugins.)
7.) Install the Thunderbird ESR and configure it to use the SME IMAP email.
8.) Install the "sogo-integrator-<version>-sogo.xpi" plugin you modified, into Thunderbird and restart Thunderbird. Sogo will then go to the server and install the other plugins as configured in your "updates.php" file. As default the SOGo-Thunderbird components will associate Calendar and Addressbook to the Sme user/account corresponding to default Thunderbird Imap mail account; so take care to set the desired Imap account as default in Thunderbird before installing plugins.
Now you can create and share address books and calendars in Thunderbird with other SME users and control access rights to them. Your calendars and address books will also sync with the SOGO webmail page as well as any other computers where you have the SOGO Integrator plugin installed.
To configure other devices refer to website; look however at SOGo official up-to-date front-end software and documentation with latest upgrades for server, client and device configuration (http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/frontends.html - http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/documentation.html).
Mixed warnings
You can experience some problem with IMAP authentication: you can login to SOGo but you can't see mail messages; only admin can see his mail. Looking at sogo log you can find erros like this:
Aug 15 21:41:04 sogod [19261]: [ERROR] <0x0xba13edec[NGImap4ConnectionManager]> IMAP4 login failed: host=localhost, user=xxxxxx, pwd=yes url=imap://xxxxxx@localhost/ base=(null) base-class=(null)) = <0x0xba14cdec[NGImap4Client]: login=xxxxxx(pwd) socket=<NGActiveSocket[0x0xba14d194]: mode=rw address=<0x0xba14d1d4[NGInternetSocketAddress]: host=localhost port=35161> connectedTo=<0x0xba14cebc[NGInternetSocketAddress]: host=localhost port=143>>> Aug 15 21:41:04 sogod [19261]: [ERROR] <0xBA13C964[SOGoMailAccount]:0> Could not connect IMAP4 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [15/Aug/2014:21:41:04 GMT] "POST /SOGo/so/xxxxxx/Mail/0/mailboxes HTTP/1.1" 200 17/0 0.018 - - 252K xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [15/Aug/2014:21:41:04 GMT] "POST /SOGo/so/xxxxxx/Mail/1/mailboxes HTTP/1.1" 200 343/0 0.243 - - 24K xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [15/Aug/2014:21:41:05 GMT] "POST /SOGo/so/xxxxxx/Mail/1/folderINBOX/unseenCount HTTP/1.1" 200 13/0 0.263 - - 48K
This seems related to users not belonging to a group; so be careful that all of your users belong to a group before using SOGo. For existing users:
Create a group Reset the users password Add user to the group
More details can be found in this post: