HOWTO: Open-Xchange on Gentoo

bitwh0re · Apprentice Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 214

To Dark_Hunter and all others helping on this forum topic,

THANK YOU!!!

I haven't had much time lately to participate on this forum or keep the HOWTO up to date. It's refreshing to see this discussion continue on even though I've been pretty much absent. Again, thank you, without your help there would be a lot of frustrated Gentoo users without a running OX installation.

Mike.

sonix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 102

I'm here to say, mucho gracias brethren! I have my ox running all nice. Gonna be notifying my users about it and im sure they will be very excited and very grateful for the help i've received from the community.

Here are some issues that could be easily addressed in a script (maybe modify adduser_ox?)
- add user to ox then add user to cyrus
- create Sent folder in cyrus
- set permanently delete deleted mail.

Best of luck to anyone who hasnt gotten ox running yet. I highly recommend using the portage tree to emerge ox. I will stick around to try to help.

Helpful tips:
USE="-ssl" emerge open-xchange << ssl works but you would have to check the gentoo wiki on open-xchange

to reset your postgres db:
/etc/init.d/postgresql stop << VERY IMPORTANT if you forget to do this, you will definitely run into problems stopping postgres later.
su - postgres
rm -R data
mkdir data
initdb data
exit
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
then run the command under HOWTO: Setup database (following commands) which should have appeared after you emerged, and ran the ebuild command.

to reset your ldap tables:
/etc/init.d/slapd stop
rm /var/lib/openldap-data/*
slapadd -l /usr/share/open-xchange/init_ldap.ldif
chown ldap:ldap /var/lib/openldap-data/* << if you get ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1) error after you adduser, this could be your problem.
/etc/init.d/slapd restart

to create your matching imap user after you created your ox user
cyradm -user cyrus domain.com
cm user.<user>
cm user.<user>.Sent << creates sent folder you could do the same if you wanted a Draft or Spam folder.
you would have to manually go to the email acct options, subscribe to the new sent folder and set it to save your sent mail to the sent folder. might be wise to set permanently delete deleted mail in the options there as well.

look at my slapd.conf which i posted earlier. check it against yours. they should be pretty much identical.

once again,
Merci.

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

hi to all. i'm trying to setup ox with these software:

smtp-> qmail-ldap
imap-> dovecot

now i'm fighting wit webmail i'm unable to send message. the error i see in webmail is:

unable to store message copy. Undefine error occured: A2 NO: nested expression is: com.sun.iap.CommandFaildeException A2 NO

Your message has been sent.

But in fact no message are delivered.

investigatin with loglevel 10 i found this:
Exception in ComposeMessage/storeMessageCopy
Unable to store message copy.
javax.mail.MessagingException: A2 NO ;
nested exception is:
com.sun.mail.iap.CommandFailedException: A2 NO
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.doCommand(IMAPFolder.java:2065)
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.exists(IMAPFolder.java:386)
at com.openexchange.webmail.ComposeMessage.storeMessageCopy(ComposeMessage.java:1853)
at com.openexchange.webmail.ComposeMessage.sendMessage(ComposeMessage.java:1638)
at com.openexchange.webmail.Management.onBeforeHtmlLoad(Management.java:389)
at com.openexchange.thread.ComfireThread.validateSession(ComfireThread.java:407)
at com.openexchange.thread.ComfireThread.run(ComfireThread.java:162)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

someone can help? thank in advice!
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Dark_Hunter · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:19 pm Post subject:

Try to open the "Options" section in webmail, go to the folder section and set the default folders, after that try it again.

Hope that helps =)

SB · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 74 Location: At The Bar!

Sorry to crosspost from my thread, but I am also having a problem...

I'm trying to add a user, but get the error:

"Undefined ERROR - LDAP CODE implementation specific"

I can't see what I've done wrong to cause this error. If I echo the LDAPCONN ( -H ldap://xxx -D cn=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=xxx -w xxx -x), and use the same connection parameters into ldapsearch, I get a list of all the LDAP objects, so I guess it's authenticating fine.

It's obviously tripping up on something, but I don't have a clue what. It's odd that it's not throwing an error code which should be LDAP CODE xx implementation specific. The users are definately not being added - the only user in the LDAP tree is the mailman user. OX was emerged without ssl support.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Dark_Hunter · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject:

Which LDAP do you've got?

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

now i've got open-xchange sending emails.
so i went to fight with ssl support.
i get this error:

localhost openexchange: INTERNAL TLS Support: ON
error loading CA: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory

seems to me that ox can't open ca file. i'm sure the .pem file is in the right place ad i've tryed changing permissions.
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Dark_Hunter · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:31 am Post subject:

@sammo:
Which ox version do you use? Do you use the ebuild or by hand?
I know it is functioning with ox 0.8.0.6 except the umin part.

For the webmail part please create a symlink from /etc/open-xchange/groupware/sslcerts/ to /etc/open-xchange/webmail/sslcerts.
The groupware certs and keys get also (ab)used as webmail certs and keys.

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

amigafan · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject:

hmmm.... I have reinstalled my ox after a liitle time. I unmerged tomcat, openldap, postgres, and removed all its configs and directories. Then I (again) followed Mikes how-to and every step went fine - not one error message. No I want to login and.. "ERROR: Authentification failed"

Whats going on here?

During login my syslog says:

Dark_Hunter · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:11 am Post subject:

amigafan · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:19 am Post subject:

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

tls still not working. somone has tls-working setup with open-xchange?
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Dark_Hunter · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject:

yes, I got ox working with ox 0.8.0.6 except the setup part in the groupware.
The ebuild will be updated soon

For ox 0.8.1* is currently no way - I'm sitting and debugging

Dark_Hunter · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:32 am Post subject:

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

ok, some step ahead. now i resolved the issue open-xchange can't load ca. ad seems tls is working with ox-0.8.0.6.
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Dark_Hunter · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:41 am Post subject:

oh sorry, forgot to post something:

here is the bug at ox:
http://www.open-xchange.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=734

Some good (debugging) steps:

add "-w" to the shebang in login.pl (this gave me the importand informations for the buggy login.pm in the apache-log, if you use the ox ebuild this should be fixed)
increase the debug level in the ox components
create a symlink from the groupware/sslcerts to webmail/sslcerts directory so you can also use ssl in webmail

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

sonix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 102

i dont seem to be receiving any mail. i have no problem sending outgoing mail. sending mail to hotmail works fine but not to myself. Inbox is always empty but Sentbox gets updated when i send a new msg.

sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

ok. now all seems working with tls: also the setup groupware section. the brute force solution i've found is to copy
all /usr/lib/open-xchange/ files in /opt/*-jdk-bin-*/jre/bin/ and setup correct permission.
anyone more experienced with tomcat/java has a different solution, such as setting some environment variable to help java vm to find the correc classes?
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sammo · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

another question. I've found no way to get ox to talk with openldap with tls/ssl. i have two ldap server (master/slave with slurpd replication). the master server is on a remote host, so i wish to get some security with encryption. the only solution i get to work is to use stunnel to encrypt the communication between ox and the ldap master. anyone has another solution?
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slaapkop · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 66 Location: Nijmegen

sonix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 102

slaapkop · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 66 Location: Nijmegen

Hi,

Do have to give a password in the webmail section then?

If log into groupware and go to the email section i get the same message as when i try to log in to the webmail section.