Kolab 3 some questions

Christian Tardif christian.tardif at servinfo.ca
Tue May 28 06:07:12 CEST 2013


Regarding UID, I still don't get how come it never came to idea not to 
use the email address (which is the only part of an email system which 
is 100% sure will be unique) as a UID. Anything else can lead to problems.

Christian...

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On 27/05/2013 05:58, Christian Hügel wrote:
> Greetings to all,
>
> first of all a huge thank you for this awesome software. We are testing
> a kolab 3 installation with the goal to migrate our
> Postfix/Postfixadmin/Roundcubemail/Dovecot/Dspam/MySQL solution to
> kolab.
> We are using about 100 mailboxes with 10 different domains. I have a few
> question though:
>
> 1. How can I import existing Mailboxes/Users (about 20GB data) in kolab
> 3? Kolab 3 uses Cyrus-IMAP which has, as far as I know, a different
> format to dovecot.
> 2. There´s already postfix and mysql running on our server. How good or,
> lets say easy does kolab 3 integrate into a installation with existing
> components like postfix/mysql/ldap etc.
> 3. While testing i´ve notice that all created domains (besides the
> primary domain) cannot be deleted anymore. Is this a bug?
> 4. The UID is not unique. It uses always the given name as UID. We have
> a couple of users with the same given name so this leads to a problem.
> Sure, you can edit the UID field and make it writeable but why not use
> the givenname and a part of the surname as UID?
>
> It took me some time to understand that created domains through the
> webgui aren´t multi-domains as I would expect. There are only domain
> aliases to the primary domain.
> The feature of multi-domains ca only be configured through CLI
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> trator_Guide/chap-Administrator_Guide-Hosted_Kolab_Groupware_Setup.html)
> Is there any plan to integrate this in the webgui?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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