Scalix mail server

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

Anyone have any luck making the scalix mail server www.scalix.com work on gentoo?
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aNtHrAx323 · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject:

I'd like to know as well. Only SUSE and RedHat binaries are available, so I'm not too sure how much custom configuration I really want to get into. I'm trying to get a groupware server set up... Anyone?
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GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

I had very little luck, its RPM based and appearntly tries to check for dependancies "the redhat way", which I know nothing about.
I was unable to convince it that I had its dependancies installed.
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GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

bump ..

anyone got scalix to work?
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digitized · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

No sorry, but i've read that the're planning to release a console based installer through 1Q06. (It turned out, that it probably will be scalix 10.)

But it's not so easy to make an ebuild of it, because of it's included software...
Remember scalix includes its own mta (based on HPopenmail) an requires openldap, spamassasin and tomcat (and it's dependencies) to be installed and configured properly.

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

Having the deps installed isnt my concern, but when I tried I was unable to convince the gui installer that I had the deps installed (when in fact, I did, and they were working+tested)
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digitized · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:08 am Post subject:

I've read, that there was a manual install guide included in the earlier version of scalix but they removed it because they won't support it. So, the only thing we can do for now is wait for the 10th major release an hope that their "console based" installer is a script we could get to work.

Akhouk · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:30 am Post subject:

Did anyone get anywhere with this? Is there any actual need for the gui installer? Can we not just convert the rpms to tar.gz, install them and then hack the init scripts and config files. Does anyone know if the installer is doing anything more than installing the rpms and writing some configuration.
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Sivarn · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 7

bump

Akhouk · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:42 am Post subject:

I used rpm2targz to make tar.gz files for the rpms and then installed them. It puts everything in /opt which is fine. The init scripts and other things look quite straightforward as in they could easily be Gentooized.

The problem I am getting is when I start it it is complaining about not being able to find libssl.so.4. On checking for this file it seems to be a Redhat thing. Is it just another name for the openssl .so file? Why does Redhat have it numbered as so.4 ?
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Sivarn · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 7

From what I've been reading, the hard part of the Scalix/Gentoo install is "Gentoo-izing" all the init scripts and config files. Could you keep us updated as you move along? I'll be sure to do the same thing, but given my linuxnub status, you might not want to take my advice

kerick · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 59

I can tell you this is possible, I had my work test machine running scalix for some time. Off the top of my head though, I remember there being some foolish om* programs you have to run to get this thing installed. It is kind of a pain. I believe I posted a message on their forum or sent an email to support on how to do a console install and got a reply back with instructions.
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grassu · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

any news about this? Has anyone installed it succesfully? The installation guide of the scalix ce raw (http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scalix_CE_Raw/Installation) is only for debian.

Thanks,
grassu

mdevens · n00b Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Arizona

I am also curious on this... It looks like the post before me was back in May, has anyone found out how to do get this installed? (without super hacking)

grassu · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject:

SCALIX 11 is now out.

Just installed it in a xenU - Fedora environment. This is realy a nice peace of software and I would be glad to see it in gentoo. Unfortunately I'm not a developer, just a tester.

carpenike · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 127

I just grabbed the source code from scalix.com

I'll play around with it and see if I can get it to work; seems pretty straight forward.

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fiebre · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 17

i just looked into it some hours.

you can skip the source code rel of scalix. the install will not work, because it's build to be used for RH or SuSe ( rpm style ) and you need to hack the python code to get it working. ( building that ebuild file is like raising hell ).

lets hope they will be a friendlier rel of the source code package soon.
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DrAgOnTuX · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: