Feature Request(s) for next version!

[sebpayne]

For the next version of Scalix (Q1 2006 IIRC), It would be great to have:

Better HTML support in the SWA
Mail Rule Agent (sorting emails)
WebDAV iCAL aupport (coming?)
UI option in SAC for SpamAssassin and ClamAV
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Thanks

Seb

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[ScalixSupport]

Hi Seb,

Can you add some more detail to the first and last items ?

In particular, what's broken with the HTML support at present and what would you like the UI to provide in relation to SpamAssassin and ClamAV ?

Cheers

Dave

[les.piggot]

I think I know where Seb is coming from, integrated contol via the SAC for both ClamAV and Spamassassin should allow an administrator to create the relevent configurations file without resorting to the cmd line. e.g. The all-routes.vir and omvscan.map are created with the relevent selected options.

Another thing I would like to see, is the ability to create system wide rules, where for example the administrator can automatically create a SPAM folder on the server for all(new) users and script rules to filter and move SA tagged mails automatically. as a result of this, users would also ave to be able to opt-out of the autofiltering and setup there own rules.

[sebpayne]

Hi Dave (and Les ) :)

For HTML support, in Mozilla Firefox, HTML emails don't always render properly (or at all). For the ClamAV/SpamAssassin support, I think there should be an option in SAC to enable ClamAV/SpamAssassin and configure it. Just editing/creating/copying text files can be discouraging!

Thanks

Seb

[florian]

Seb,

for the HTML EMail Problem, can you actually open one of those emails using a client like Firebird, Select Show Message Source and Copy/Paste the contents of the window to us? We can then investigate. If a eMail is valid HTML, it should render correctly in SWA.

iCal support (sending and receiving iCal invitations) will be in the next Scalix release.

We're also adding new features to SAC; integrated management of SpamAssassin and ClamAV is not (yet) part of this as we're adding features based on wide customer applicability. While SA and Clam seem very appealing at first, a good number of our customers also use perimeter-based Anti-Spam solutions or commercial Anti Virus products where we cannot easily integrate with the admin functionality. Again, it is under consideration.

If you need a GUI frontend to manage your Spam Assassin, I'd recommend using Webmin which has a pretty good SA module.

What do you mean with "Mail agent"? we have our Server-based rules, available through both Outlook and the web-based scalix rules wizard, that can be used to move messages to folders according to certain criteria. anything else needed here?

Thanks for your feedback,
Florian.

[sebpayne]

Where the server based rule agent? In SAC? In SWA? Is there a HOWTO/guide on how to use it?

Thanks

Seb

[florian]

In Outlook, it is the normal "Rules Wizard" in the Extras menu.

To be able to use the web-based Scalix Rules WIzard, you will have to do a number of things:

1) Make sure your Apache Web Server is running on the Scalix server, if not, enable it using chkconfig and the service or rcapache command.

2) The web-based rules wizard should then be available through http://your.scalix.hostname/Scalix/rw

3) You can enable integration with SWA through the /etc/opt/scalix/webmail/partner.xml config file, there are two lines to watch out for, one should read

rulesWizard="true"

the other should read

rulesWizardURL="http://your.scalix.hostname/Scalix/rw"

You'll need to restart your tomcat web server to activate the change.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

[sebpayne]

When I have configured the XML file to allow me to use the Rules Wizard, do I access it through :8080 or through :80. 8080 is hosted by Tomcat and :80 is hosted by Apache.

Basically, is the Rules Wizard hosted by Apache or Tomcat? If it is hosted by Apache, do I need to configure it? If it isn't hosted by Apache, why do I need to start it?

Thanks

[florian]

the web-based scalix rules wizard is hosted by apache.

it should have been integrated into apache by the scalix installer. this has happened by linking the /opt/scalix/global/httpd/scalix-web-client.conf config file into the conf.d config directory of apache, on RedHat that is /etc/httpd/conf.d

To reduce the number of open ports, we actually recommend using the JK connector to make tomcat accessible through apache as well; the next release of the scalix installer will do this automatically by default.

Let me know if this works for you now.

-- Florian.

[sebpayne]

Is there a tutorial on how to use the JK connector with Apache/Tomcat?

Seb

[sebpayne]

I found the Rules Agent working under /Scalix/rw under Apache so it did work.

[ijfischer]

Delegation for Enterprise Users in the Web client
Evolution Connector
Thunderbird Connector
Ability to add Enterprise licenses in Community Edition

Also: Are these already features?
Synchronization between a native Posix account mailbox and a Scalix mailbox
Integration with OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Servers and pre-existing Kerberos KDCs

[sebpayne]

Delegation for Enterprise Users in the Web client
Evolution Connector
Thunderbird Connector
Ability to add Enterprise licenses in Community Edition

Also: Are these already features?
Synchronization between a native Posix account mailbox and a Scalix mailbox
Integration with OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Servers and pre-existing Kerberos KDCs

Thunderbird Connector? Why is it needed? You can get your email by IMAP - Thunderbird is only a mail client

Evolution will work with the iCal conenector which is coming :)

Seb

[florian]

Delegation in the web client is a often-wanted feature and certainly a roadmap item for one of the next releases.

a full evolution connector (using ical format for calendar data)is part of the next release, coming in q1/06.

:-) for thunderbird, i don't see a need for a connector either; it's imap and smtp and ldap. ical and webcal support in the next release will allow you to download your calendar to sunbird.

CE + more enterprise licenses = EE! :-)

for the other two..

... what do you mean by sync of a posix mailbox? if this is about migration, our migration tools can be your friend to migrate via imap. as can any imap client. as can a number of open source imap2imap copy tools. if you talk about a provider mailbox to be polled, fetchmail is your friend.

... we can integrate with any ldap-compliant directory server (openldap is mentioned in the omldapsync and om_ldap man pages) and we can also use an existing kerberos kdc as on the server side we use gssapi for our kerberos handling which just uses the os libraries.

hope this helps,
florian.

[heupink]

the web-based scalix rules wizard is hosted by apache.
To reduce the number of open ports, we actually recommend using the JK connector to make tomcat accessible through apache as well; the next release of the scalix installer will do this automatically by default.
-- Florian.

This next version you are talking about, would that be the currently available version 9.4.2?

Mourik Jan