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= Zarafa =
= Zarafa Open Source edition =


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
The Zarafa Open Source Collaboration gets part as RPM packages of the Fedora distribution.
The Zarafa Open Source Collaboration gets part as RPM packages of the Fedora distribution.  Zarafa Outlook Sharing is a Microsoft Exchange replacement.


== Owner ==
== Owner ==
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== Current status ==
== Current status ==
* Targeted release: [[Releases/13 | Fedora 13 ]]  
* Targeted release: [[Releases/13 | Fedora 13 ]]  
* Last updated: 2010-02-07
* Last updated: 2010-03-19
* Percentage of completion: 95%
* Percentage of completion: 100%


== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==
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== Scope ==
== Scope ==
Almost everything is already done, packages need to be build and pushed to the repository.
Everything is done, the "zarafa" and "zarafa-webaccess" packages are tagged in dist-f13.
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498194 Review request for Zarafa]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498195 Review request for Zarafa Webaccess]


== How To Test ==
== How To Test ==
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== Release Notes ==
== Release Notes ==
Fedora ships the Zarafa Open Source Collaboration: It provides an integration with existing Linux mail servers and a webaccess with 'Look & Feel' similar to Outlook using Ajax. Including an IMAP4 and a POP3 gateway as well as an iCal/CalDAV gateway, Zarafa can combine the usability with the stability and flexibility of a Linux server.
Fedora ships the Zarafa Open Source Collaboration: It provides an integration with existing Linux mail servers and a webaccess with 'Look & Feel' similar to Outlook using Ajax. Including an IMAP4 and a POP3 gateway as well as an iCal/CalDAV gateway, Zarafa can combine the usability with the stability and flexibility of a Linux server. More information can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zarafa.


== Comments and Discussion ==
== Comments and Discussion ==

Latest revision as of 18:50, 20 April 2010

Zarafa Open Source edition

Summary

The Zarafa Open Source Collaboration gets part as RPM packages of the Fedora distribution. Zarafa Outlook Sharing is a Microsoft Exchange replacement.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 13
  • Last updated: 2010-03-19
  • Percentage of completion: 100%

Detailed Description

Zarafa Outlook Sharing is a Microsoft Exchange replacement. The Open Source Collaboration provides an integration with your existing Linux mail server, native mobile phone support by ActiveSync compatiblity and a webaccess with 'Look & Feel' similar to Outlook using Ajax. Including an IMAP4 and a POP3 gateway as well as an iCal/CalDAV gateway, Zarafa can combine the usability with the stability and flexibility of a Linux server. The proven Zarafa groupware solution is using MAPI objects, provides a MAPI client library as well as programming interfaces for C++, PHP and Perl.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora users get the chance to easily install a fully featured and stable groupware solution including a Outlook-like web interface alternatively to the available POP3/IMAP/iCal/CalDav connectors. And as far as I can see, Zarafa seems to be the first groupware and/or collaboration in the whole Fedora Collection; that's why I would call these new packages a feature.

Scope

Everything is done, the "zarafa" and "zarafa-webaccess" packages are tagged in dist-f13.

How To Test

No special testing except the regular package testing required. A very simple and basic installation and usage test below:

  • yum install zarafa zarafa-webaccess
  • Configure MySQL in /etc/zarafa/server.cfg
  • service zarafa-server start
  • service zarafa-gateway start
  • service zarafa-spooler start
  • zarafa-admin -s
  • zarafa-admin -c tux -e tux@localhost -f "Zarafa Tester" -p MyPassword
  • service httpd restart
  • Go to http://localhost/webaccess and login with "tux" and "MyPassword"
  • Create calendar entries, contacts or write an e-mail

Note that the delivery of e-mails into Zarafa requires the usage of zarafa-dagent either via local mailer (e.g. .forward or .procmailrc) or via LMTP with the zarafa-dagent initscript (needs to be configured in /etc/zarafa/*.cfg before). Simple test for this is to take a regular RFC 822 e-mail or a regular mbox and "cat mbox | zarafa-dagent -j tux" (you either need to be root for this or $USER needs to equal "tux").

User Experience

See the detailed description above.

Dependencies

No new dependencies.

Contingency Plan

Just don't ship it :)

Documentation

Release Notes

Fedora ships the Zarafa Open Source Collaboration: It provides an integration with existing Linux mail servers and a webaccess with 'Look & Feel' similar to Outlook using Ajax. Including an IMAP4 and a POP3 gateway as well as an iCal/CalDAV gateway, Zarafa can combine the usability with the stability and flexibility of a Linux server. More information can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zarafa.

Comments and Discussion