[Kolab-devel] Modifying the LDAP user representation for a distributed Kolab server system?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Benoit Mortier <benoit.mortier at opensides.be> writes:

> Le Tuesday 29 July 2008 10:19:37 Gunnar Wrobel, vous avez écrit :
>> Hi!
>
> Hello Gunnar,
>
>> The current Kolab2/OpenPKG server is usually installed as a complete
>> system on a single server. Some setups use a master/slave installation
>> where all machines are also complete Kolab servers.
>>
>> In principle it is possible to distribute the system to a larger
>> degree and split postfix/IMAP/webmail to different hosts. We already
>> encourage such setups for the webmail. There are also people splitting
>> the free/busy system to another server:
>> http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6699.
>
> That's the way to go.
>
>> I'd like to know if people feel it makes sense to allow for such
>> splitted Kolab server setups. As far as I can see this would require
>> additional settings comparable to "kolabHomeserver" in the LDAP schema
>> for a Kolab user. There is already "kolabHomeMTA" in the schema but it
>> is currently unused.
>>
>> Would it make sense to add additional entries such as
>> "kolabImapServer", "kolabFreeBusyServer" etc. in the Kolab user
>> representation?
>
> Sure that would be a great idea.
>
> We always implement splitted setup when is possible.
>
> Web application on a server, imap on another, spam/antivirus on another

Are you doing this based on Kolab2/OpenPKG? Any hacks you needed to
add in that case?

Cheers,

Gunnar

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