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Hi - I am testing out scalix community edition for use in an edu institution (med-small) with potential for enterprise edition future?

I like the speed of the web client.
I like web management of group mailing lists.

however
a few showstoppers apparently. and a few questions.

- vacation message, forwarding - I see no way to set this via swa..??

- Flexible From: address via swa?? - our current webmail allows setting arbitrary from address (IE, for example a number of people read a group distribution list email which gets delivered into their personal inbox - they want to respond to this email as
group@domain.com so that responses are not delivered personally but go back to the distribution list - this does not seem to work )

also - is there any way to delegate administration of a domain in the community edition.
i.e. if one mail server serves multiple virual domains
foo.com
bar.com
and
fred.com

can fooadmin be set up to be able to create/delete user accounts for foo.com, etc...

though I am not too familiar with the outlook client - if vacation messages and changes to forwarding are not available via the web client, perhaps these features are only accessible if you are using an outlook client?

this means the swa client is less than fully functional for people who are using another imap mail client....

Well, I honestly don't think anybody wants SWA to be as functional as Outlook as this would probably bring with it an equally cluttered user interface; it usually takes me about 10 minutes to find one of the more obscure options in one of the many preferences dialogs.

However, some of what's requested here can be done.

For setting up Server Based Rules over the web, we offer the web-based Scalix Rules Wizard. This can be used to setup Out of Office notifications and Auto-Forwards and many other types of rules.

After a default Install of Scalix, this is normally available via the

http://my.server.name/Scalix/rw

URL.

It can be integrated into the SWA menu bar by editing the /etc/opt/scalix/webmail/partner.xml config file. You need to change the "rulesWizard" and "rulesWizardURL" properties and restart tomcat.

The next release of Scalix will do that automatically for you by default during the install.


Now to the other questions:

1. Flexible use of From Address
This is currently not possible. Also, it is not typically a wanted feature for an enterprise Email system, as it would allow me to send email on behalf of my CEO or anybody else, therefore it is a security problem. The proper way to do this is to use delegation (which controls who you may send as by ACL permissions), which is currently available through Outlook. A future release of SWA will also allow for delegate access. Currently, IMAP clients are the only supported client type where the end user has full control over his sender address. If that's not wanted as a security enhancement, it can be disabled on the SMTP Relay level (smtpd.conf) with the AUTH_SUCCESS and AUTH_MISMATCH config options.

2. Delegation of Administration by Domains
This is currently not possible in a single Scalix instance with SAC. However, there are two ways to do it anyway. One is to use multiple independent Scalix Instances that run on a single server; each with it's own user management, message store, address book, etc. The other would be to use an LDAP directory for User Management (which will give you fine-grained access permissions to the objects) and then user our omldapsync integration tool and pam-based authentication against the LDAP server to integrate with an Enterprise directory.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

florian wrote:
For setting up Server Based Rules over the web, we offer the web-based Scalix Rules Wizard. This can be used to setup Out of Office notifications and Auto-Forwards and many other types of rules.

After a default Install of Scalix, this is normally available via the

http://my.server.name/Scalix/rw

I get no response from my server at this url.

http://scalix.ems.int:8080/sac/ and

http://scalix.ems.int:8080/webmail/

work fine, but Scalix/rw doesn't.

out of interest, what other urls are active and useful?

Thanks

Matthew

That's about it; actually, internally we use 8080/caa and 8080/res for the SOAP services behind the Scalix Admin console.

The RW is offered through apache, so you might want to check if your apache web server is running on port 80 (no 8080 in THIS ONE URL).


-- f.

florian wrote:That's about it; actually, internally we use 8080/caa and 8080/res for the SOAP services behind the Scalix Admin console.

The RW is offered through apache, so you might want to check if your apache web server is running on port 80 (no 8080 in THIS ONE URL).


-- f.

Apache is running, and serving from /var/www/html, but the html folder is completely empty! Where in the structure should scalix/rw be?

Didn't realise that both tomcat AND apache were used by scalix. Very sneaky!

well, in the next release, we'll actually use the JK connector to "hide" tomcat behind apache by default. this can be done manually as of now.

the files are not copied to the apache html tree. Instead, the installer adds a config file to apache under /etc/httpd/conf.d/ (in RedHat) that will redirect the URL.

-- f.

What file should I check for in that directory?

should be pretty obvious.. ;-)

scalix-web-client.conf

-- florian

I agree its pretty obvious,, but its not always the obvious answer.

Anyway, that file is there and contains the lines...


ScriptAlias /Scalix/rw /opt/scalix/bin/ice.cgi/prof=RW-C
ScriptAliasMatch ^/Scalix/rw-(.*) /opt/scalix/bin/ice.cgi/prof=RW-$1


Think I'll do a complete reboot and see what happens..

Rebooted, but no difference.

http://192.168.0.180/Scalix/rw gives..

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.


Whereas if i try a completely random address eg http://192.168.0.180/ssss

I get a standard HTTP 404 error
The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Does this help anyone give me a clue?

Many thanks

Matthew

Do you have selinux installed ?

If so, you need to disable it as per the release notes.

Change SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled or SELINUX=permissive. You will need to reboot for this change to be picked up.

Cheers

Dave