create domain specific address book rather than system wide

[potatoinmiri]

Dear all,

Is there any way to create many address book that can be used by different mailnode or domain? I know there is a way, use multi instance feature. We need to do mail hosting for a dozen domains. because of that multi instance seems a not so practical choice because running 12 simultaneous instance at the same time is just not practical due to the amount of resources it will consume.
For that reason, we prefer to try to fit a few domain into one instance and yet enable each domain to have its own address book...

thanks for taking time helping

[Valerion]

The SYSTEM address book is always visible. It is possible to add more global address books to Outlook, but it is hard to manage and I wouldn't recommend it.

You need to add a new directory to Scalix (omnewdir), then add an entry for it to mapi.cfg, and of course you have to add the relevant entries to the directory.

[mikethebike]

potatoinmiri,

from experience this is not a good idea from an admin perspective.

If you have to do this, I would suggest having the system directory with all addresses, and only update that manually.
Then create the other directories (omnewdir) and set up dirsync agreements to them from teh system directory, only exporting/importing entries with specific attributes (man omdirsync). Set the dirsyncs to run as often as required.

You can restrict access to the directory using access control list (man ommodacln), or like Valerion says, editing the user's default address book in the mapi.cfg.

Mick

[Valerion]

The Scalix ASP version has been talked about for a while now, and this feature will be included there, I believe. Of course, this is targeted at a different market from SBE and EE products.

Release dates are up to Scalix, however.

[potatoinmiri]

Hi Valerion & mikethebike,

thanks for all your replies. I tried the suggestion, add a directory. Although not yet successful configured but i can see the work involve in administrating the directories.
Since we are going to host mail domains, we will handle the technical and troubleshooting part but we decided to leave the account creation and administration part to the admin people of our clients. But obviously with such technical skill required, it will be impossible for them to administer the accounts by themselves.

My one quick question is, say if i use this method to create separate directory, from thunderbird, is it possible to see the directories i have created? I have in thunderbird, configured the "directory server" part with "o=mycreateddirectories" but it doesn't show any addressing.

thanks again for all replies

[potatoinmiri]

Hi Guys,

Sorry ignore my previous post. I have got it working from thunderbird, its simply set the base DN to your directory base DN. how stupid I am...it was straightforward.
Anyway, thanks for the help mikethebike and Valerion.

Hopefully Scalix next release will be providing a user friendly administration for the separate directories and the accounts created under it. By that it will be of great help for company like us who will do mail hosting for independant entities. Multi instance is good but it gets too complicated if there are too many instances required.
thanks Scalix team.

[florian]

Hi,

Scalix 11.2, which can run in "Hosting Edition" mode (which is a separately licensed feature) can do exactly this, run with partitioned address books, taking all the issues of ldap-basded directory access, etc., into account and not relying on a complex dirsync setup. Also, scaleability will be the same as for a single-instance system and no instances will be involved at all, so it's all you need here and actually a bit more.

Please contact Scalix Sales for details.

Thx,
Florian.

P.S. Are you an existing SBE or EE customer? I did not find your details.....

[a.schild]

Hi,
Scalix 11.2, which can run in "Hosting Edition" mode (which is a separately licensed feature)

This is a product we will look into. Actually we have made tests with hosting them via XEN/VMWare etc., but for small domains with 3-20 users it's just too much overhead to be able to make good prices to the enduser.

Is the 11.2 release date still "Semptember 2007" ?

Thanks

André

[florian]

yes. and what you're referring to is quite in the middle of the target audience sweet spot for the new product.

Florian.

[a.schild]

yes. and what you're referring to is quite in the middle of the target audience sweet spot for the new product.

There isn't much "September 2007" left, that's why I asked

[potatoinmiri]

Oh that is great!! thanks Florian!