[Kolab-devel] different IMAP server

[Henning Holtschneider]

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On Tuesday 23 March 2004 15:41, Ilja Booij wrote:

> I have a question about the IMAP server in Kolab. I have tried Kolab to
> see if we can use it as our groupware server. It looks very nice indeed.
>   The only problem is that we'd like to use it with our own IMAP server
> (DBMail http://www.dbmail.org). So, my question is, to what extent is
> Kolab dependent on Cyrus, or is it only dependent on some features of
> Cyrus (ACL, LDAP authentication)?

Kolab uses the following Cyrus-related features which might or might not be 
available in DBMail:

- - shared folders (not officially supported by Kolab 1.0, though)
- - folder ACLs to share folders between individual users
- - Sieve for forward/vacation function
- - LDAP to retrieve usernames, passwords, email addresses
- - please correct me if I missed anything here ...

The Kolab backend modifies Cyrus' configuration files based on template files. 
You will have to modify the backend script to suite DBMail's needs. From what 
I saw by looking at the dbmail.org website, it seems that DBMail is storing 
everything inside a MySQL database. That means that you will have to change a 
lot on the Kolab backend! Also note that MySQL is not included in the 
standard Kolab package - and most likely will never be.

Regards,

     <-gninneH<-
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