My Kolab 2.4 experience on Centos 6

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Hi Troy,

On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 09:42:11 PM Troy Carpenter wrote:
> After wasting my time with installing Kolab 2.4 in a Centos container under
> Proxmox, I finally switched to installing under a full KVM version of
> Centos. The install went as expected when following the instructions, with
> the following additions:
> 
> 1. I had to manually create the localhost.pem file that was expected by
> postfix to initiate TLS connections.
> 

I've created ticket #886 for this issue[1].

> 2. I had to configure postfix to use a smarthost and also handle the sasl
> authentication for the smarthost (I had to do the authentication part in the
> previous version of Kolab as well).
> 

If you could summarize what you did, I'd be interested in including this 
deployment scenario / change of configuration in the documentation.

For the sake of record keeping, I've created a ticket for this as well - 
#887[2] - it is not an uncommon deployment scenario, after all.

> The main problem I am having right now is with z-push.  When I point my
> devices to the server, they are constantly telling me the password is wrong.
> I have tried with an iPad and also just using a web browser on my PC.  With
> the PC, I get the username/password dialog which also tells me the password
> is incorrect.  I don't have any logs or debug information being generated. 
> Like previous versions, I am using my email address as the username.

Z-Push requires you to login with your uid attribute value (the default is to 
use the surname of a user). I know this is somewhat confusing, as Kolab 2.3 
installations used the email address as the uid attribute value.

> Logging in with IMAP works just fine, as does sending email.
> 
> The final problem I will need to deal with is transferring old emails from
> my live 2.3 install to this one.  I have come across a tool called imapsync
> that I plan to try.
> 

Be careful with imapsync, we've heard of situations where misconfiguration 
would have one end up with calendar items in mail folders or vice-versa ;-)

Offlineimap might be a utility to your liking as well.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

[1] https://bugzilla.kolabsys.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886
[2] https://bugzilla.kolabsys.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887

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