Bonjour (sorry but that is as far as my written French goes without error!),
I am very impressed at having found the OBM project. I see it as an open source alternative to Microsoft Small Business server, which I have seeking for many years. Previously I have had a go a rolling my own solutions using OpenLDAP, Dovecot, Postfix and SAMBA. I have been studying the wiki and testing the new 2.4 release on Ubuntu LTS Server (10.04.3 64-bit) with a fresh installation in a virtual machine. I am using the Debian repository at http://deb.obm.org/daily as my source. Ideally I would like to use MySQL as the database back-end but understand the limitations of this with Minig at the moment. The main issues I have found so far are that the 2.4 .deb files require old packages only found in the Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.x) LTS release. To work-around this I have added the following (in addition to the OBM daily repository) to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ hardy main deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ hardy-updates main deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ hardy-security main Then, to prevent any of these old packages from taking preference, I created /etc/apt/preferences containing the following: Packages: * Pin: release n=hardy Pin-Priority: 10 This then allows the basic installation to succeed by typing: apt-get install obm mysql-server php5-mysql OBM Satellite starts and immediately dies as it can't write its PID to the .run file. To fix this, I needed to type (as root or prefixed by sudo): mkdir /var/run/obm service obm-satellite start After this I have all the basic OBM 2.4 services running for e-mail with LDAP integration. As you probably guessed, my preferred language is English and I noticed a few mistakes and omissions in the 2.4 translations. The first being the Logon button on the OBM home page! I have a few questions, which I am hoping others on the list can assist me with: 1. Do you agree with my approach for getting 2.4 to install on Ubuntu Lucid? 2. Why did the daily builds stop on 31st March? They are stuck at rc2 but I see from the releases page that rc5 is out and could well fix some of the bugs I noted above. 3. I have not had much luck getting Minig to work in this environment yet. Ideally I would use Roundcube as I am already familiar with this. Is there any pre-release documentation I could test to try and get this working? 4. How can I assist with translation work and help improve the English support in 2.4? 5. If I were to implement a new server, are the 2.4 release candidates the best way to go or should I use 2.3.x and then migrate when 2.4 is finally released? Thanks for all your work on 2.4 so far. Hopefully I can assist in any way possible to making it a great release? Regards, -- Ian McMichael • E-Mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Obm mailing list [email protected] http://list.obm.org/mailman/listinfo/obm
