Questions about scalix

[kool_kid]

anyother way to accomplish same thing automatically through scalix server, i dont want to manually do it for every mail.

[kool_kid]

is there a way, so that all new users should be able to get an introduction mail whenever a new user is created?

[Valerion]

Well, this is harder to do. On a default install, not easy.

You can create the users via a Request Server script instead of SAC, and have the script send the email out. Or do this via an Administration Plugin in SAC. Or, if you really want to, you can read the RES log and send an email for every omaddu command you encounter.

[kool_kid]

seems to be little difficult for me.

[kool_kid]

Can anyone make one such Administrator plugin please, i dont even know the "P" on how to make those plugins.

[kool_kid]

How do we reject .exe files being uploaded into the mails using ClamAV

[joako]

If you are using amavisd-milter take a look at your amavisd.conf file. It will probably be in /etc

[kool_kid]

nah i dont use amavisd-milter, anyother alternate?

Another question i see "Resources" tab in my sac administrations, whats is it and what is its use?

[techsharp]

nah i dont use amavisd-milter, anyother alternate?

Another question i see "Resources" tab in my sac administrations, whats is it and what is its use?

You can set up resources to have on your Calendar.

For instance we have one named 'Conference Room 1' and on Outlook everyone can use that to book the room for the specified time slot.

[kool_kid]

nah i dont use amavisd-milter, anyother alternate?

Another question i see "Resources" tab in my sac administrations, whats is it and what is its use?

You can set up resources to have on your Calendar.

For instance we have one named 'Conference Room 1' and on Outlook everyone can use that to book the room for the specified time slot.

So whats the difference between having another account (say "Conference.Room@domain.com" ) and the resource ???


Another uestion, does Scalix provides me a complete report regarding size of mailboxes of users, total size of attachment, complete mails in each user mailbox etc. Does'nt matter whether such a feature is there in Community edition or Enterprise Edition

[Valerion]

Size of mailboxes, yes (look at sxdu), but not the rest. Would be time-consuming to gather, given the way the mailstore is structured.

Resources can be seen as users with specific templates added to them, so their calendars are auto-shared, they can accept and reject meeting requests based on duplications, etc. No need to set this up manually for the resource.

Also, in OL 2003 they can be selected as a "Resource" in the booking screen, I haven't tried this with normal users yet.

[kool_kid]

so only the mailbox sizes can be known, anyothere things that can be known??

[Valerion]

I believe you can use the web services API to pull all that information, but you will have to code it yourself.

You can get the sizes of various storage areas (INBOX, sent items, drafts, deleted items, other folders) easily. Inside Outlook you can get information on each message, as well as total usages in various folders. If you follow the UAL specs (Scalix has them) you can also write something that will get this. Or an Outlook plugin that reads this via MAPI.

[kool_kid]

Thanks for your reply

I believe you can use the web services API to pull all that information, but you will have to code it yourself.

Is there a howto, for getting information on how to code it?

You can get the sizes of various storage areas (INBOX, sent items, drafts, deleted items, other folders) easily. Inside Outlook you can get information on each message, as well as total usages in various folders.

I was asking about getting the storage areas information from server, is this possible doing how u said here?

If you follow the UAL specs (Scalix has them) you can also write something that will get this. Or an Outlook plugin that reads this via MAPI.

can you please through some light on this or guide me to a tut.

[Valerion]

Is there a howto, for getting information on how to code it?

Have a look at the API guide available on the Scalix website, with all the other documentation. Ot use http://<your-server>/api/docs

You can get the sizes of various storage areas (INBOX, sent items, drafts, deleted items, other folders) easily. Inside Outlook you can get information on each message, as well as total usages in various folders.

I was asking about getting the storage areas information from server, is this possible doing how u said here?

Well, the commands here are sxdu and omscan to give you the information I was referring to. Unfortunately that's all you can easily get server-side at this point.

If you follow the UAL specs (Scalix has them) you can also write something that will get this. Or an Outlook plugin that reads this via MAPI.

can you please through some light on this or guide me to a tut.

This is a quite advanced topic. I have seen the original OpenMail UAL specs and it's not very pretty. Powerful, but not easy. I do not know if any tutorials exist for it. For MAPI you will find lots of information on the net, but it's not something I am good at.