setting up kolab in a home network

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Mon Jan 30 04:26:49 CET 2006


On Sunday 29 January 2006 08:16 pm, Alan Hartless wrote:
> Sorry for sending this out again, but I haven't seen a solution yet.
To cheap to spend $15 a year but bothering everybody?
>
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>
> Subject: Re: setting up kolab in a home network
> Date: Thursday January 26 2006 2:13 pm
> From: Alan Hartless <alan.hartless at gmail.com>
> To: kolab-users at kolab.org
>
> > Get a static IP address and a domain name. It's not expensive. gandi.net
> > has worked well for my for quite a few years. It includes DNS in the same
> > low price.
> > The go from here.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I would rather not spend money on something
> that I know that I can get to work for free.  The thing is that I had this
> all working (mail and everything) before.  But I decided to try out a
> couple other groupware servers, and like an idiot, I deleted the Kolab
> server.  I decided that kolab was the best and so came back to it.  But now
> I can't get it to work. With everything I seem to try, I get "Error while
> uploading folder" (see previous email).  Like I said earlier, the only time
> I can get it to work is if I have hartysdesktop or localhost as the server
> and mail domain, but then postfix doesn't work right so mail isn't being
> delivered.
>
> On Wednesday January 25 2006 10:33 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks for writing me back.  I've set things up like you said (with both
> > the server and mail domain as accountname.getmyip.com).  I also went to
> > the dyndns website and set up a mx record to point to
> > accountname.getmyip.com and set kolab to accept mail.  But, when I
> > connect to my desktop (the server) from my laptop via kontact (the
> > client) and try to sync I get this error (with the
> > "accountname.getmyip.com" being my real account name of course):
> >
> > Error while uploading folder
> > Could not make the folder Calendar on the server.
> > This could be because you do not have permission to do this, or because
> > the folder is already present on the server; the error message from the
> > server communication is here:
> > Could Not Create Folder
> > An attempt to create the requested folder failed.
> > Details of the request:
> > URL: (unknown)
> > Date and time: Wednesday January 25 2006 11:42 am
> > Additional information:
> > imaps://harty83@accountname.getmyip.com:993/INBOX/Calendar/
> > Possible causes:
> > Your access permissions may be inadequate to perform the requested
> > operation on this resource.
> > The location where the folder was to be created may not exist.
> > A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred.
> > Possible solutions:
> > Retry the request.
> > Check your access permissions on this resource.
> >
> > Any clue what's going on?
> >
> > Thanks again!
> > Alan
> >
> > On Wednesday January 25 2006 2:45 am, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:
> > > > Okay, so I have set up Kolab on my desktop.  I've tried entering many
> > > > different things for the domain name and the mail domain.  The only
> > > > time I can get the thing to work successfully are when I have both
> > > > set to hartysdesktop or both set to localhost.  Any other combination
> > > > (i've tried "accountname.getmyip.com," localhost.localdomain,
> > > > hartysdesktop with accountname.getmyip.com as the mail domain, and
> > > > others) and I get an error that says that the folder calendar can not
> > > > be written when I try to sync my client (from my laptop) and that I
> > > > probably don't have permissions to write. However, when I use
> > > > hartysdesktop or localhost as the server, postfix will change the
> > > > email addresses to
> > > > "user at hartysdesktop.localhost" or
> > >
> > > Hi :
> > >
> > > The "domain name" is the FQDN of that server.  accountname.getmyip.com
> > > is what you would type in there.
> > >
> > > The mail domain is the domain part of the email addresses you want to
> > > receive. If you had user at accountname.getmyip.com email addresses, then
> > > you would type accountname.getmyip.com again.  If you wanted to receive
> > > mail for
> > > user at someotherdomain.com ... you would type someotherdomain.com.
> > >
> > > If you want this to correctly work on the internet you also need to do
> > > a couple of other things.
> > >
> > > 1.  You need the MX record in the DNS for the "mail domain" to point to
> > > your server.
> > >
> > > 2.  You also need to turn on Internet Mail in the Kolab services
> > > section of the admin interface.  There is a check box you have to turn
> > > on in order for it to work.
> > >
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > >
> > > Andy
> >
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