[Klug-general] open xchange

[Evan Ingram]

On Nov 07, 2006 12:37 PM, Karl Lattimer  wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:26 +0000, Evan Ingram wrote:
> > I did look at hulas but it didnt have the ..er functionality we were
> > after.
>
> The erm what ..er functionality??
>
> > Another problem im having is with fetchmail. I need to pull down
> > mail
> > from pop accounts for several different users some with more than 1
> > pop
> > account, and have the mail delivered so that open xchange can read
> > it.
> > Open xchange users mail is stored in /home/users/Maildir/ and im
> > using
> > courier-imap. I'm not too hot on mail servers and mta's etc, but
> > managed
> > to get Open xchange and its webmail up through following online
> > guides -
> > it was a struggle. Open xchange will mail out, but i want to use
> > fetchmail to grab the mail down from a pop account instead of using
> > it
> > as a full mail server.
>
> maildir is a terrible way to store email, hula will be compatible with
> open xchange and novell netmail it is an amalgamation and evolution of
> the two bring the best of both worlds including rich web clients.
>
> Hula acts as MUA imap/webmail etc... with other groupware facilities,
> sendmail/postfix/qmail/exim could conceivably be used as the MTA
> although I believe it also has one built in, fetchmail is a pissy
> program to do a job, you can use fetchmail as a cronjob, or script it
> otherwise easily enough and its better to have this as a separate hack
> from your MTA than as part of it.
>
> You should also consider using ETRN mail handling rather than
> fetchmail
> as its more secure, faster and generally better. If you have a static
> internet connection then you may consider using a more adequete MX DNS
> registration and use an offsite server to rebounce mail which would be
> faster.

Dynamic connection on it for now.

>
> > I got fetchmail to login to a single pop account, but it pulls the
> > mail
> > down into /var/mail.
>
> This is scriptable, I can send you some stuff which I've written as a
> hack to perform this task although its an old hack and may be
> incomplete.

That would be good to look at, thanks.

>
> >
> > Anyone got any advice which isnt read the man pages?
> >
>
> Use perl/python/bash to generate a fetchmailrc and execute in a single
> process, unfortunately fetchmails cli doesn't have enough arguments to
> make it as useful as it could be.
>
> K,
>
> >
> > On Nov 06, 2006 10:05 PM, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 08:50 +1100, George Prowse wrote:
> > > > Colin_The_Technician wrote:
> > > > > what's hulas? When i google it, it comes up with a gay bar in
> > > > > Hawaii.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > I should have wrote hula's but apostrophes were banned in email in
> > > 1997
> > > i think. Along with spelling out 'you' and 'are' properly.
> > >
> > > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, thats just what we need, some Polynesian
> > > > Julian
> > > > Clary hand-in-hand with Karl in our list ;)
> > >
> > > are you trying to imply something? FYI, Julian Clary is straight,
> > > he
> > > does it as an act. No gay person is _that_ gay without a serious
> > > psychological problem! I think they call it the Julian Clary
> > > syndrome...
> > >
> > > Anyway, for the benefit of list members, I am straight. That means
> > > I
> > > like women _AND_ linux, and further to that I must add that the
> > > two
> > > aren't mutually exclusive.
> > >
> > > K,
> > >
> > >
> > >
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