FW: Can Kolab act as an Internal Mail Server and Relay

[Stephen Hind]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bendtsen [mailto:jon at kollegiegaarden.dk]
> Sent: 08 April 2004 16:00
> To: Stephen Hind
> Cc: kolab-users at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: Can Kolab act as an Internal Mail Server and Relay
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> Den 8. apr 2004, kl. 16:51, skrev Stephen Hind:
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> > Can I use kolab to act as an internal mail server and as a relay to
> > internet mail accounts?  If so how and where do I need to configure
> > these options?
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> What do you mean by relay to internet mail accounts?
> postfix can certainly be set-up to send all outgoing messages to another
> server.
> And with fetchmail you can pull in external email to your kolab box.
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So can kolab be configured to do this, or do I have to configure postfix
directly to do this?
Fetchmail - as far as I am aware this is not a part of kolab, so I guess I
have to configure that myself?  If so how would I marry up fetchmail pulling
30 (approx) mail accounts into the corresponding kolab accounts?
  
> > At the moment I'm testing kolab on a Mandrake 10.0 Community based
> > system, which is my desktop.  I use the built-in KDE Kontact/KMail
> > package to connect to it, which it seems to successfully, as can see
> > my inbox.  I encounter one problem however.  I have tried to send mail
> > to myself at both my internal address and the standard internet
> > address, but it remain in my outbox always.
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> hmm, in your outbox? Did you define a server for sending email?

YES! See the paragraph below from my original mail!  If I don't define a
server KMail says "define a server"

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> > Can I use KDE contact?  If so what have I not configured (I added the
> > kolab server in as both an IMAP, IMAP disconnected and SMTP servers). 
> > Should I use the kolab client instead?
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> What happens when you try to send a message to yourself ?

It sits in my outbox.

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> > I hope these are clear enough, please mail me if not.
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> they are a little unclear to me.


OK I will try to be clearer:

What we want to achieve is to use kolab as an internal groupware server so
we can share/view calendars, send mail to one another without having to use
the internet, have a common address book, send appointments and tasks.  But
we want kolab to automatically send emails that need to go out to the
internet, so I guess we rely on postfix for this?  the kolab web interface
does not appear to give any configuration options for postfix, is this right
or am I missing something?

At the minute I'm only using the standard Kontact/KMail client that comes
with Mandrake 10.0 Community.  This may be the problem as I don't know if
this will work with kolab properly, can someone confirm this?

Hopefully this is clearer.

Stephen

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