Kolab and Kontact on Mandrake 10

[Fausto Zorzi - NetiX s.r.l.]

Fausto Zorzi - NetiX s.r.l. wrote:
> Fausto Zorzi - NetiX s.r.l. wrote:
> 
>> Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
>>
>>> Le mer 21/07/2004 à 12:35, Fausto Zorzi - NetiX s.r.l. a écrit :
>>>
>>> I'm now in charge of your Mandrake support tickets #82294 & 82417.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have then disinstalled and reinstalled the whole Kolab server, with
>>>> all its dependencies, then ran again /usr/sbin/kolab_bootstrap -b.
>>>> The configuration is much clearer now, but when I start the 
>>>> kolab-server
>>>> service, after all the services give [OK], I receive this message:
>>>> Login failed: authentication failure at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor
>>>> _perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
>>>> could not authenticate with Cyrus IMAP daemon () at /usr/sbin/kolab 
>>>> line
>>>> 439.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like your LDAP is pretty messed up... I suggest you:
>>> 1) remove kolab (rpm -e kolab-server)
>>> 2) remove remaining files in /etc/kolab (rm -rf /etc/kolab)
>>> 3) remove your ldap databases (rm -f /var/lib/ldap/*.ddb)
>>> 4) reboot your server to make sure all services are shutdown.
>>> 5) reinstall kolab (urpmi kolab-server)
>>> 6) run /usr/bin/kilab_boostrap -b as root via command line (don't use
>>> the wizard so we can have logs)
>>> 7) start kolab (service kolab-server start)
>>>
>>
> 
>> I did what you suggested, but can't still authenticate with cyrus and 
>> the web interface can't still be accessed with manager/[manager 
>> password] (I also checked the bind_pw line in /etc/kolab/kolab.conf 
>> and it is exactly as it should be.
> 
> 
> Never mind, I checked the aforementioned steps and I found that the step 
> 3) should be about deleting *.dbb instead of *.ddb, now the installation 
> process goes fine and I can authenticate with cyrus and access the web 
> interface with manager/[manager password].
> 

Now I have a problem configuring Kontact to communicate with Kolab, 
probably there is a problem with the cyrus mailbox folder.
I've configured Kontact as in the document file you indicated:
http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/*checkout*/doc/proko2-doc/doc2.sxw?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
In the section where you have to configure KMail to have groupware 
functionality (KMail->Setting->Configure KMail->Misc), I did as 
indicated, but when I try to synchronize the new account to the server 
with File->Check Mail In->[new account], in the little synchronization 
dialog I have two item:
1) The name that I gave the host in the Network configuration of KMail-> 
it gives me this error message (I have to translate from Italian):
Error loading the folder
It's impossible to create a folder in the server.
This can be because you don't have the rights to do it or because the 
folder is already present in the server.
The error message from the server is:
It's impossible to create the folder
The creation of the required folder failde.
Detail of the request:
URL: unknown
Date and Time: ...
Further info: imap://user@host.domain.lan:143/Calendar
Possible causes:
- your access rights ca be inadequate to execute the required operation 
on this resource
- the address in which the resource should be created could not exist
- there could be and error or protocol incompatibility
Possible solutions:
- retry to send the request
- check your access rights to this resource
2) INBOX -> it gives this error message:
Impossible to open the INBOX folder.
The server answered:
System I/O error

Frankly I don't know where to check access rights; I thought it could be 
in the spool directory /var/spool/imap, but there there is no folder, 
even if, for what I know, there should be a "user" folder, with a folder 
for each kolab users. I tried to create the "user" folder by hand, with 
cyrus:mail ownership, and restarting kolab-server, but it didn't work.
I checked with cyradm and the mailbox of the user are actually there.
Could you please help me?

Thank you in advance.