dovecot as alternative

[Christian Hügel]

This is a very interesting topic. We use dovecot as well and I´d love to 
see if there is a way to make it run with kolab 3.

Chris.


Am 31-05-2013 9:18, schrieb Mihai Badici:
>> It would be quite easy to allow dovecot as an alternative imap
> server.
> 
>> I'm pretty sure setup-kolab doesn't work with dovecot, and to the
> best
> 
>> of my knowledge setup-kolab does not check whether or not cyrus is
> 
>> installed, it just assumes that it is. Which is correct with the
> current
> 
>> installation dependencies.
> 
>> 
> 
>> So it gets a little bit more complex. I'm thinking we could have
> kolab
> 
>> depend on an imap server (either cyrus, which would be the default,
> or
> 
>> dovecot, or anything else). In combination, we could move the
> dependency
> 
>> on cyrus to the kolab-conf package, so cyrus would be required for
> 
>> setup-kolab - at least for now. The end result being that you can
> 
>> install any old imap server, but if it isn't cyrus, you'd be on your
> own
> 
>> in terms of setting up your server.
> 
> If Cyrus will be required by setup-kolab I can install all kolab
> metapackage, run setup-kolab and eventually remove setup-kolab and
> cyrus.
> 
> After that, i can install dovecot. I will manage with configuration,
> in fact i will ned only one or two templates. If I will install more
> than two servers probably I will wrote a pach for setup-kolab :)
> 
>> 
> 
>> If you could file a bug, we could work against that to see what can
> be
> 
>> done.
> 
>> 
> 
>> > Well, I could compile from source, but I already done that for
> 
>> > Slackware, on Debian it is supposed to be easy :)
> 
>> 
> 
>> It is, provided the package maintainer makes it easy :-D.
> 
> Well, everybody agree, Debian is great for production use.
> 
> But when you try to abandon the "right way" it's problematic. That's
> way I use slackware who let me broke my system if I want to .. and
> sometime even if I don't want to :)
> 
> So I will fill a bug ( I'm not sure where, because is not a kolab
> issue but a package one) and perhaps will have a nice result at the
> end.
> 
>> 
> 
>> Cheers,
> 
>> 
> 
>> Paul
> 
>>