Implement new scalix system from scratch

[kgao]

Hi,
My company now have about 10 people, and we are using Yahoo email for small business now, which works perfect for current situation.

In order to growth, we are looking at other email solution. I installed an evaluation scalix server and try to figure out how to implement the scalix email system from scratch.

I had read the Scalix Administration Guide and Scalix Coexistence and Migration Guide, but it didn't give me answers for the following.

1. Add users
If there any tool to add user?
I used "omaddu -n "/John Doe/myserver, mycompany/" -p scalix
this generate following user with password scalix
John Doe/myserver, mycompany/CN=John Doe

When I try to use
omstat -u service
to list the active users, the response is "No such subsystem", do I missed anything?

2. How to modify user appearance
Used above mentioned way, the user appeared as
John.Doe@myserver.mycompany.com

How can I get rid of the myserver part from it?

What to do if I need the mail address format
Jdoe@mycompany.com ?

Anybody has the experience to set up scalix server from scratch and migrate from an outside mail service, please share your experience here. And we don't have Microsoft domain server or Directory service, just plain Unix/Linux environment.

Thanks in advance,
Keith

[kgao]

How can give John Doe an arbitry email address ?
theman@mycompany.com

[ScalixSupport]

1. Add users
If there any tool to add user?

Starting on page 20 of the installation guide, there are instructions on how to install the Scalix Administration Console. This provides a GUI for administering users.

When I try to use
omstat -u service
to list the active users, the response is "No such subsystem", do I missed anything?

The man page for omstat explains

The service can be the "Local Client Interface" (lci), "Remote Client Interface" (rci), "P7 Client Interface" (p7), or all.

So, the command should be:

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omstat -u rci

to be able to see active users.

2. How to modify user appearance used above mentioned way, the user appeared as John.Doe@myserver.mycompany.com

When you first installed Scalix, you will have been prompted for a domain to use with the mailnode. This is used to generate the internet addresses. If you need to change this, you should run the following command:

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omgeniamods -m mailnode -D newdomain > /tmp/iamods.sh

where mailnode is your actual mailnode and newdomain is the domain you wish to assign to the mailnode. This will create a script containing the commands required to make changes to the existing data. You should then run the script with

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sh /tmp/iamods.sh

Anybody has the experience to set up scalix server from scratch and migrate from an outside mail service

What service are you migrating from ?

Cheers

Dave.

[ScalixSupport]

How can give John Doe an arbitry email address ?
theman@mycompany.com

From the command line, you can run the command:
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ommodu -o "John Doe/mailnode" -n "John Doe/mailnode/IA=address1@domain.com=theman@mycompany.com"[code]

where multiple internet addresses are separated by the "=" sign.

If you want theman@mycompany.com to be used on outgoing mail, you should make sure that it is the first address in the list.

Cheers

Dave

[kgao]

We will migrate from Yahoo Small Business email accounts.

[trig]

FYI,

A good way to add users, well this is the way I do it..

omaddu -n "John Doe/mail,node/IA=John Doe <john.doe@domain.com>=aliasemail@domain.com" -p

Hope this helps

[kgao]

Now my email showed as
jdoe@bucket.mycompany.com
bucket is the mail server
bucket,mycompany is the mail node

I hopt to make my email show as
jdoe@mycompany.com

Try to make the change using the command you told me and it didn't work:
I tried both mycompany and mycomany.com as the domain name


[root@bucket locale]# omgeniamods -m "bucket,mycompany" -D mycompany.com > /tmp/iamods.sh
omaddiam : [OM 29044] The System Id, Domain or Name Mapping is incorrect,
possibly it has an unknown attribute.

Usage: omaddiam {-s sys_id | -m OR_address} {[-D domain] [-N name_or_ia_map]}

[root@bucket locale]# omgeniamods -m "bucket,mycompany" -D mycompany.com > /tmp/iamods.sh
omaddiam : [OM 29044] The System Id, Domain or Name Mapping is incorrect,
possibly it has an unknown attribute.

Usage: omaddiam {-s sys_id | -m OR_address} {[-D domain] [-N name_or_ia_map]}