Feature changed by: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) Feature #307846, revision 14 Title: Kolab groupware server support by openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Info Provider: Richard Bos (rbos) Requested by: Richard Bos (rbos) Developer: Ralf Lang (ralflangb1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Kolab (http://kolab.org) is a free and open software groupware solution. It allows seamless support of mixed clients environments (Outlook/KDE/Web). The following functionality is provided by kolab; groupware (free/busy information), email, spam and virus filtering, a webinterface for the system administrator and end user. The web interface can be used to add, modify and remove users, domains, distributions list, shared folders, among other things. Kolab is build from only open source software, and the data it stores is freely available by the end user. This means that if the end user is not satisfied with the provided service delivered by the service provider, the end user can retrieve his or her data and move it to somewhere else. The Kolab groupware server is assembled with postfix, cyrus, amavis, openldap, apache among other open source projects. Due to its design the kolab server supports multiple domains and thousands of end users. Clients that can be used with Kolab groupware server are for example KDE's kontact, horde, MS Outlook in combination with a connector. Kolab for openSUSE has been available for a long time already, but it was always necessary to patch multiple projects to provide all (groupware) functionality. Since September 2009, it is only necessary to extend cyrus with some patches to get the required functionality. Hence in order to have Kolab working on openSUSE cyrus must be patched. The patched cyrus version can be retrieved from the build service. Kolab is it worth to be supported by openSUSE as it is composed of only open source software, it supports thousands of end users, and very unique end users have full control over all their data including their groupware information! Discussion: #1: Isaac WALULYA (isanel) (2009-10-30 17:58:49) HI all, I have installed kolab and successfully started all services but i can not add a user. When i try to add a user (first name: Isaac Nelson Last Name: Walulya trial domain:mydomain.com ) , i get the error message: " LDAP Error: could not add object cn=Isaac Nelson Walulya,dc=mydomain, dc=com: Invalid syntax What i am i doing wrong ? Please help. #2: Richard Bos (rbos) (2009-11-07 15:17:16) Hello Isaac, please do not (mis)use this feature request as bugreport. Look up the packager in one of the kolab rpms (use rpm -q -- changelog <pkg>) and inform the packagere. This is also explained in the warning box at http://en.opensuse.org/kolab. Thank you. #3: Satoru Matsumoto (heliosreds) (2010-12-20 14:34:48) Since openSUSE 11.3 has been already released, I've changed the target product from 11.3 to distribution. And, please explain this feature much more clearly onece again, because it's goal is unclear. Is it only about adding a patch to cyrus? #4: Richard Bos (rbos) (2010-12-20 14:52:30) (reply to #3) This is about adding Kolab to openSUSE or at least make that as easy as possible. Kolab consist of several servers (openldap, apache, postfix, etc). Most of these can be used as provided by the openSUSE distribution, but cyrus. The latter must be patched to be able to use with Kolab. It would be great if openSUSE would ship cyrus with the Kolab applied to it. That is one thing. Besides this Kolab requirs many more packages, mainly php-pear or php-horde packages. These packages should be provided by packagers that maintain the server:php: applications repository. I used to maintain Kolab, but due to time constraints, I no longer provide Kolab for openSUSE. Others should do the work now to make Kolab available for openSUSE. #5: Ralf Lang (ralflangb1) (2011-05-15 15:04:57) (reply to #4) I've packaged most of horde4 now and met Gunnar Wrobel this weekend, who did a lot of horde's kolab support. I can look at this once kolab changes to use horde4 instead of horde3. I won't support the kolab- patched horde3 libraries though. + #6: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) (2011-05-20 15:05:48) + Hey Ralf that's good news. I've also seen they perhaps will go to + roundcube (would be better in my opinion). Anyway I add my vote for + that, and really have a big interrest to see Kolab again easy for + openSUSE. + I'm in the process to assemble all documentations needed and give it a + new try or restart. I hope Richard will be able to help me a bit on + obs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307846