[Samba] Please share your mail setup with me if you are running samba4

Fri Feb 21 11:37:47 MST 2014

I built a samba4/qmail-ldap/dovecot/davical/other setup that has all the
basic features of an exchange server, with more besides.  it has been in
production for over 1 year and proved stable and reliable.  I documented
the sandbox environment here:

http://cocnm.computerisms.ca/index.php/Main_Page
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Bob Miller      
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http://computerisms.ca

On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 11:10 +0200, Raymond wrote:
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> Hi Guys, I had no luck so far getting openchange installed onto samba 4.1.4
> and wondered if I am on the right track here regarding emails for users. I
> will appriciate it if anyone can share their setups with me so I can
> estimate what will be the best way forward.
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> The plan so far.
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> Run Samba4 as a file server.
> (this is working in a test enviroment)
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> Run Samba4 as a DC with Active Directory
> (this is working in a test enviroment)
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> Run (OpenChange) as an alternative for Microsoft Exchange          (this is
> so far not working out for us as we cannot get openchanged installed on an
> already working samba4 setup)
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> So here is the question.
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> Do we just use a linux IMAP server instead? In our company we use POP
> accounts on our email clients and would like to use IMAP to help users who
> travel to pickup mail. This was the main reason why we wanter to use SOGO
> and OPENCHANGE.
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> Can we connect the IMAP users to Samba4 or do we need to create a linux user
> for IMAP? Just thinking here if the users change their passwords with samba4
> if that password will carry on into the IMAP config and change the email
> passwords or will we need to manually change the email passwords if the two
> cannot be linked together. 
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> Please share your setup with me if you do not mind. You don't need to
> provide detailed config's etc just a general overview of what you have in
> place at the moment that works for you.
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> Thank you
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