Robert Scheck wrote:
Hello Ronald,

On Tue, 04 May 2010, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote:
  
Is it possible to split out the mail piece of zarafa so that it uses an 
external dovecot server? Currently have all emails being sent via our 
qmail server, but need to wrap my head around using our current dovecot 
server. Have read that one could use fetchmail, unfortunately this is 
not a viable solution with close to 3,000 end users as well as the 
possible duplication of mail directories and email on two servers.
    

right now, this is not possible.

Zarafa uses everywhere MAPI which isn't IMAP even the four letters are the
same just in another order. With MAPI every regular e-mail gets splitted up
into many socalled properties which are saved in the MySQL database; that's
the very short form at least.

There are no plans by Zarafa to make Zarafa able reading IMAP stores rather
just the MAPI stores on which they actually really depend on. But Zarafa
doesn't strictly exclude the possibility of a IMAP storage for e-mails for
the (far) future - if recently I got one of the Zarafa employees right.

But what I don't get in your scenario is, why you need Dovecot? I don't
know QMail exactly, but you can make QMail delivering e-mails via .forward
or LMTP to Zarafa. And Zarafa provides a socalled gateway for IMAP and POP3
for the users. Yes, of course this isn't that perfect like Dovecot or Cyrus
IMAPd, because it's not a classical IMAP server and it doesn't support all
the funky IMAP extensions some IMAPd servers do. But the gateway is really
usable for most cases.

Hope that helps you? Note, IANAZE (I Am Not A Zarafa Employee).


Greetings,
  Robert

  
Robert,

Thanks for the reply!

Dovecot is used for pop3 & imap, integration with avelsieve and squirrelmail. We are just not keen on hosting another mail server which (with my limited zarafa knowledge) would appear to store duplicate e-mails and possibly mail directories.

The main reason for asking is that during our initial (today) testing events created with iCal or Sunbird are not showing up on attendees calendars but emails are showing up. It seems (to me) that we would need to use zarafa's email features in-order to send / accept meeting invitations? Using other calendar type applications (bedework) events created and submitted via ics/caldav show on both the creators and attendees calendar for which they can be accepted, declined or what have you.

Regards,

Ron

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