Zarafa exchange replacement
For a long time I’m searching for a free exchange that runs on Ubuntu.
Zimbra is very nice but you can’t connect with outlook for free.
OpenExchange has the same issue and OpenChange is far from finished. I
came across this news
message.
Zarafa is licenced under the AGPL
Zarafa is a Mail Delivery Agent that supports:
- AJAX webaccess with mail, contacts, todo, calendar
- POP,IMAP support
- Z-Push (ActiveSync replacement, I use this with my iphone)
- 3 outlook users (via a closed source component)
- iCal support
- LDAP support (Active Directory)
You can use Postfix and other MTA’s to send and receive mails.
This tutorial describes how you can configure Zarafa. I use this for all my mail and it works perfect (also on my iPhone).
The webmail demo:
http://demo.zarafa.com/
Step 1: install Zarafa
install depedencies:
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apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 libmysqlclient15off apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5
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Zarafa use Mysql as a storage backend. You need apache if you want to use the WebAccess and Z-Push, both are written in PHP.
Download zarafa community edition, the download page is a little bit
annoying because there is no direct download link. With lynx you can
download it very easy. If you don’t have lynx: apt-get install lynx
Next we need to untar it:
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tar zxvf zarafa-6.20-ubuntu8.04-i386.tar.gz
cd zarafa-6.20-ubuntu8.04-i386
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Start the installer:
Follow the steps on the screen. Don’t enter a serial number. You can enter all questions except of the MySQL password.
Next we need to change a configuration in php.ini:
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nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
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Find with ctrl-w the line “magic_quotes_gpc = On” and turn On in Off.
Restart apache:
Zarafa needs some older versions of some packages. Therefore you
need to hold back some new packages otherwise zarafa will be removed
when you run "apt-get dist-upgrade"
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echo libvmime0 hold | dpkg --set-selections
echo libical0 hold | dpkg --set-selections
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Done, zarafa is installed! Time to add a user.
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zarafa-admin -c jan -p secret -e
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-f “Jan Peter Balkenende” -a 0
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-c = create user
-p = password
-e = email
-f = full name
-a = administrator 1 or 0 (true of false)
To test Zarafa Webaccess, check with ifconfig the ip address and go this url:
https://<ip>/webaccess
Works great isn’t it? Pop, imap, mapi etc everything is working..
Step 3: install postfix and get mail working)
Install postfix:
Click oke and choose “No Configuration”
Next we have to change the config files. The fastest way is to copy these config files:
master.cf
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#
# Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format
# of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command: "man 5 master").
#
# Do not forget to execute "postfix reload" after editing this file.
#
# ================================================== ========================
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ================================================== ========================
smtp inet n - - - - smtpd
zarafa unix - n n - 10 pipe flags= user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/zarafa-dagent ${user}
#submission inet n - - - - smtpd
# -o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticate d,reject
# -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
#smtps inet n - - - - smtpd
# -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticate d,reject
# -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
#628 inet n - - - - qmqpd
pickup fifo n - - 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - - - 0 cleanup
qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr
#qmgr fifo n - - 300 1 oqmgr
tlsmgr unix - - - 1000? 1 tlsmgr
rewrite unix - - - - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - - - 0 bounce
defer unix - - - - 0 bounce
trace unix - - - - 0 bounce
verify unix - - - - 1 verify
flush unix n - - 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap
smtp unix - - - - - smtp
# When relaying mail as backup MX, disable fallback_relay to avoid MX loops
relay unix - - - - - smtp
-o smtp_fallback_relay=
# -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5
showq unix n - - - - showq
error unix - - - - - error
retry unix - - - - - error
discard unix - - - - - discard
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - - - - lmtp
anvil unix - - - - 1 anvil
scache unix - - - - 1 scache
#
# ================================================== ==================
# Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure to examine the manual
# pages of the non-Postfix software to find out what options it wants.
#
# Many of the following services use the Postfix pipe( delivery
# agent. See the pipe( man page for information about ${recipient}
# and other message envelope options.
# ================================================== ==================
#
# maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README file for details.
# Also specify in main.cf: maildrop_destination_recipient_limit=1
#
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
#
# See the Postfix UUCP_README file for configuration details.
#
uucp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail ($recipient)
#
# Other external delivery methods.
#
ifmail unix - n n - - pipe
flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipient
scalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe
flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store ${nexthop} ${user} ${extension}
mailman unix - n n - - pipe
flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
${nexthop} ${user}
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main.cf
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See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no
mailbox_transport = zarafa: zarafa_destination_recipient_limit = 1
# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no
# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h
readme_directory = no
# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
myhostname =
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = ipv4
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Finally you have to add your hostname at this line: "myhostname = "
add the user vmail:
Now you can send mail. To receive mail you have to configure the MX records for your domain and point them to your IP.
Everything is working right now.
Step 4: run as non-root user (optional)
This step is very recommended, but not necessary to get zarafa working.
Add a user:
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addgroup --system zarafa
adduser --system –-home /dev/null –-no-create-home –-ingroup zarafa
–-disabled-password --gecos 'Zarafa services' --shell /bin/false zarafa
mkdir /var/log/zarafa
chown zarafa.zarafa /var/log/zarafa
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You can change the config files of every zarafa service in
/etc/zarafa. Open them all and edit the run_as_user and run_as_group
options in zarafa.
When you change the user of zarafa-licenced you can't use Outlook
anymore. This is some annoying bug. A work around is to change some
permissions:
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chown zarafa.zarafa /var/run/zarafa-licensed
chown -R zarafa.zarafa /var/lib/zarafa/
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But when you restart zarafa licenced with
/etc/init.d/zarafa-licenced restart you have to change the permissions
of /var/run/zarafa-licenced again. You can solve this by adding the
chown command to the init script.
Step 5: get Z-push working (optional)
download Z-Push
untar to the apache directory
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tar zxvf z-push-<version>.tgz -C /var/www
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Change some permissions:
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chmod 755 /var/www/z-push/state
chown www-data.www-data /var/www/z-push/state
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Add an alias to the apache config.
/etc/apache2/sites-availiable/default
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Alias /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync /var/www/z-push/index.php
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*WARNING* You CANNOT simply rename the Z-Push directory to Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync.
This will cause Apache to send redirects to the PDA, which will definitely break your PDA
synchronisation.
Done
More information
http://www.zarafa.nl/?q=en/content/documentation
