Zarafa

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	Risk of inconsistencies with Koozali SME Server methodology, upgrades & functionality is high. One must be knowledgeable about how changes impact their Koozali SME Server. Significant risk of irreversible harm.

Maintainer

Darrell May

Stephen Noble http://dungog.net/wiki

Nothing here is irreversible ;)

We use imapsync to move e-mail into Zarafa. We can use imapsync to move e-mail back into SME.

Description

http://www.zarafa.com

Open Source Collaboration, providing:

Integration with your existing Linux mailserver

Native mobile phone support

Outlook "Look & Feel" webaccess

Stable Outlook sharing (100% MAPI) - MS Exchange replacement

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

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

smeserver-zarafa rpm

	Warning:
	This is an alhpa release. Beware. For non-production testing only.

yum install smeserver-zarafa --enablerepo=smetest

Choose which Authentication method, db, unix or ldap

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4873

If you choose ldap, install e-smith-base+ldap and dependencies http://wiki.contribs.org/LDAP

Install and enable zarafa with either 1. or 2.

1.

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

"creating a Public store after reboot with"
/usr/bin/zarafa-admin -s

2. or

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/zarafa-install (available for testing, may be removed)

Usage

	Note:
	Mail is sent to zarafa mail stores, and NOT the users ~/Maildir.

With the db method, First create a user on SME, then create a zarafa account

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

unix and ldap automatically sync sme users

Ports

smeserver-zarafa db defaults in *-0.9.0-16
lowercase are not set with a db, the fragment gives the default if unset
(SSL) are opened if service is enabled (and access is public?)
 
zarafa-server tcpport 236
zarafa-server TCPPort 237 (SSL)

zarafa-gateway pop3port   110
zarafa-gateway pop3sport  995
zarafa-gateway imapport   143
zarafa-gateway imapsport  993
zarafa-gateway TCPPort 995,993 (SSL) 

zarafa-ical icalport 8088
zarafa-ical TCPPort 8089 (SSL)

#sme ports were changed
pop(s), imap(s) and webmail are disabled 

/sbin/e-smith/config setprop pop3 TCPPort 8110 
/sbin/e-smith/config setprop pop3s TCPPort 8995 
/sbin/e-smith/config setprop imap TCPPort 8143 
/sbin/e-smith/config setprop imaps TCPPort 8993

Webmail

Access with a browser, either of:

http://server/zarafa

http://server/webmail

http://server/webaccess

Outlook

To use MS Outlook

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

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

SME and Zarafa use different folder naming.

drafts > Drafts          [client specific ?, i already have Drafts in Thunderbird-2.0]
sent-mail > Sent Items
trash > Deleted Items
junkmail > Junk E-mail

Thunderbird

The Thunderbird client uses its own Trash folder, not the Zarafa "Deleted Items" folder,

Change in the config editor

Preferences > advance > config editor > find mail.server number > new string as below

user_pref("mail.server.server5.name", "zac@232.net");
user_pref("mail.server.server5.numHdrsToKeep", 30);
user_pref("mail.server.server5.timeout", 29);
+user_pref("mail.server.server5.trash_folder_name", "Deleted Items");

Drafts and Sent Items can be changed in : Account Settings > user > Copies and Folders

If junkmail exists just delete it.

Calendar

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

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

8089 for SSL

Note, there were problems with reading events created with /webaccess, seems better with RC1

It's a know problem. Zarafa 6.30 will use CalDEV instead of iCal

Mobile synchronisation

To enable synchronization of your mobile phone through ActiveSync with Zarafa, Z-push needs to be installed.

You can find the original Z-push installation documentation here: http://download.zarafa.com/zarafa/release/docs/z-push_installation_manual.en.pdf

Download the latest Z-push version (see: http://z-push.sourceforge.net).

# wget http://download2.berlios.de/z-push/z-push-1.2.tar.gz

Extract the files:

# tar -zxvf z-push-1.2.tar.gz -C /var/www/html

'State'-dir needs to be writable for apache:

# chmod 755 /var/www/html/z-push/state
# chown www:www /var/www/html/z-push/state

Expand and restart

expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
sv restart httpd-e-smith

SSL Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices

Synchronisation over a secured connection is possible if you can add your site as a trusted one with corresponding certificate on your mobile.

This is the case for Windows mobile 6 (WM6) devices. Problems should occurs on several WM5 devices, because of a bug that limits addition of certificates with that OS.

Here are the steps to add your server as a trusted platform on your WM6 mobile :

1. copy your server's certificates located in /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/ on a Windows XP/Vista computer

2. we need to transform those .crt certificates to .cer certificate ( same type of certificate but .crt are text-encoded ). To do so :

• in microsoft windows open a certificate by double clicking on it
• in "Detail" Tab pane choose "Copy to file"
• Choose Binary coded DER X.509 (.cer) format
• save resulting .cer certificates on local machine

4. transfer .cer certificates on your mobile using windows explorer

5. When done, on your WM6 mobile use file explorer to open those certificates. When opening one, the certificate is automatically added to trusted sites.

6. You can then change your Exchange server parameters to use SSL. It will be asked to reenter your password.

Know working hardware

Tested and working with WinMobile 6.1 on a HTC TyTN II over a NON SSL connection (mail-push not yet tested).

Tested and working with WinMobile 6.1 on an upgraded QTEK9100 over SSL connection. Push mail not tested.

Extras

Command line admin

man zarafa for details

List users:

/usr/bin/zarafa-admin -l

Update a user to admin status:

/usr/bin/zarafa-admin -u <username> -a 1

Migrating users and data to Zarafa

http://wiki.contribs.org/Imapsync

Bugs

Check your logs when troubleshooting or reporting bugs

tail -f /var/log/zarafa/*
tail  /var/log/slapd
tail  /var/log/messages

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

Search open bugs for smeserver-zarafa at bugs.contribs.org

Zarafa: use their forum for zarafa specific bug reporting, http://forums.zarafa.com/