Kolab Server

Technical Description

Erlewein, Frank, Konold & Partner

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v1.0.1 February 21th, 2003


Table of Contents
1. Software Selection
2. Reference Platform
3. OpenPKG
3.1. Why use OpenPKG
3.2. OpenPKG setup
3.2.1. Remarks about Bootstrapping OpenPKG
3.2.2. Installation of prerequired Software Packages
3.2.3. Logging of OpenPKG Server Packages
3.2.4. OpenPKG System Startup Procedure
4. Kolab Quick Installation
4.1. Setup of the Kolab server
4.1.1. Kroupware CVS
4.2. Quick Kolab Installation
5. OpenSSL Certificates
6. OpenLDAP2 Directory Server
6.1. Configuring SLAPD
6.2. LDAP Directory Design
6.2.1. Internet Domain Oriented
6.2.2. Organisation Oriented
6.2.3. Location Oriented
7. Cyrus SASL2 Library
8. Postfix Mail Server
9. Cyrus IMAP Daemon
10. ProFTP Daemon
11. Apache Web Server
12. Monit Daemon
13. Getting Things Together
13.1. Kolab Runtime Configuration
13.2. Kolab Administrative Web Interface
13.3. Kolab Installation Process
13.3.1. Services installation
13.3.2. Kolab Bootstrapping
13.3.3. Kolab configuration
13.4. LDAP Directory Schema
13.4.1. Person
13.4.2. OrganisationalPerson
13.5. LDAP Server Configuration
13.6. SASL
13.7. Postfix Configuration
13.8. Cyrus IMAP Daemon
13.9. Apache Webserver
13.9.1. Global configuration
13.9.2. Providing free/busy
13.9.3. Web administration
13.10. ProFTPd (Legacy Support)
14. Possible Extensions
14.1. Virus Checking
14.2. Spam Filtering
14.3. Webmail Interface
14.4. LDAP over TLS
14.5. LDAP Migration Tool
15. Appendix
15.1. Handling Kolab's LDAP database on the commandline