This post originates in the idea from Stephen Gallagher, who is working on rolekit: “rolekit is a daemon for Linux systems providing a stable D-BUS interface to manage the deployment of [Fedora] Server Roles”. The code of Rolekit is available here: https://github.com/sgallagher/rolekit On
Kolab 3.4 on Debian Jessie
Some weeks ago, I did significant work on getting Kolab 3.4 running on Debian Jessie. I did this work in my own time, because at TBits.net we focus on CentOS7. Still the work was benefitial to CentOS as well, because
Kolab 3.4 Community Updates: Roundcube update and some other fixes
I realized it would be good to blog here about updates for the Kolab 3.4 Community Edition. Although it is a community release, and therefore does not come with any guarantuee (that is up to the Enterprise version), some people
Nightly builds of Kolab now available from LBS
Previously, my nightly builds of Kolab have been built and hosted here: https://obs.kolabsys.com/project/show/home:tpokorra:branches:Kolab:Development There were 2 problems recently: I was not able to add builds for CentOS7. The error message is: Failed to add project or repository: unable to walk
Nightly builds and tests for CentOS and Debian
TBits.net is glad to announce that nightly tests now run every night against the nightly development packages of Kolab, for both CentOS 6 and Debian Wheezy. At the moment, the nightly tests also run for the Kolab 3.3 Updates for
Kolab/Roundcube with Nginx IMAP Proxy on CentOS6
I have shown in the last article Kolab/Roundcube with Squirrelmail’s IMAPProxy on CentOS6 how to easily configure an IMAPProxy for Roundcube, and explained the reasons for an IMAP Proxy as well. Because I did investigate the Nginx IMAP Proxy as
Kolab/Roundcube with Squirrelmail’s IMAPProxy on CentOS6
There is the suggestion on the page http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Config/Performance to use a caching IMAP proxy. This will cache the connections to the IMAP server for each user, so that not every click in Roundcube on a message leads to the creation of
Unattended installation of Kolab
For testing, it is useful to run setup-kolab in unattended mode. There might be other reasons too, eg. as part of a docker setup etc. One option is to use Puppet: Github: puppet-module-kolab. I don’t know enough about Puppet yet
Proxy for Kolab yum and apt-get repositories
On the Kolab IRC we have had some issues with apt-get talking about connection failed etc. So I updated the blogpost from last year: http://www.pokorra.de/2013/10/downloading-from-obs-repo-via-php-proxy-file/ The port of the Kolab Systems OBS is now port 80, so there is not
Installing Demo Version of Kolab 3.3 with Docker
This describes how to install a docker image of Kolab. Please note: this is not meant to be for production use. The main purpose is to provide an easy way for demonstration of features and for product validation. This installation