Installation of a kolab-Server

Hello,

i heard about Kolab via horde. Actually I have a running 
horde-installation on my server.
The server is used for several task. Mainly it's used to
provide 
Webpages with confixx.

Now i read about the various possiblites of kolab. Esp. the
different 
clients (e.g. horde and Thunderbird). So I thought i could
to an 
installation to test kolab before introducing it.
But as more I read now about the installation I have the
feeling the 
kolab replaces ALL neccessary item with its own. (postfix,
spamassassin, 
cyrus, etc.) Is this the way? Will an install of kolab
"destroy" my 
current config of postfix, apache, etc.

Would be glad about sone informations.

Thanks!

Bernhard

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On 9/18/07, marx-design - Bernhard Marx <b.marxmarx-design.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i heard about Kolab via horde. Actually I have a
running
> horde-installation on my server.
> The server is used for several task. Mainly it's used
to provide
> Webpages with confixx.
>
> Now i read about the various possiblites of kolab. Esp.
the different
> clients (e.g. horde and Thunderbird). So I thought i
could to an
> installation to test kolab before introducing it.
> But as more I read now about the installation I have
the feeling the
> kolab replaces ALL neccessary item with its own.
(postfix, spamassassin,
> cyrus, etc.) Is this the way? Will an install of kolab
"destroy" my
> current config of postfix, apache, etc.

You are right, Kolab contains all required component for a
mail server, it
will not reuse any distribution specific components.
Kolab will not destroy anything, it will (the openpkg
version) install
all their components in /kolab directory.

If you want to use Kolab with Hord, you should wait for the
end of its
integration, probably
for kolab-2.2.

Anyway, Horde is an IMAP client only (I thing) and then you
should be
already able to
use thunderbird. Anyway Horde (your version, not the kolab
one) store
non email data in
a format not usable by thunderbird and then you will be able
to share
only emails.

Regards


>
> Would be glad about sone informations.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bernhard
>
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marx-design - Bernhard Marx <b.marxmarx-design.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> i heard about Kolab via horde. Actually I have a
running
> horde-installation on my server.
> The server is used for several task. Mainly it's used
to provide
> Webpages with confixx.
>
> Now i read about the various possiblites of kolab. Esp.
the different
> clients (e.g. horde and Thunderbird). So I thought i
could to an
> installation to test kolab before introducing it.
> But as more I read now about the installation I have
the feeling the
> kolab replaces ALL neccessary item with its own.
(postfix,
> spamassassin, cyrus, etc.) Is this the way? Will an
install of kolab
> "destroy" my current config of postfix,
apache, etc.

As Alain already mentioned Kolab will not destroy your old
configuration. Kolab installs a separate Linux distribution
(OpenPKG)
within the /kolab directory. If the machine you use for
installing
Kolab ran postfix, imapd and/or apache you will be required
to turn
these services off in favour of the installation within
/kolab.

You can of course port your specific customizations to the
postfix and
cyrus installations within the /kolab environment.

You might ask why you would wish to have a distribution
inside a
distribution rather than installing the server within the
system as
you are used to. The OpenPKG solution was used in order to
allow a
high amount of control over the settings within the /kolab
environment. As you probably already know from your
experience with
postfix and cyrus the configuration of a mail system is a
very complex
endeavour and it is easy to break things. So the
"distribution in a
distribution" approach helps us to guarantee that the
server really
works once people installed it.

There are of course people unhappy with using the system
management
tools provided by OpenPKG and forked the basic
Kolab2/OpenPKG into
Kolab2/SUSE or Kolab2/Gentoo (I'm the maintainer of that
one). These
variants of the Kolab server integrate directly in the
corresponding
distribution but they still have have the drawback of being
less
reliable than the main Kolab distribution.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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