Re: Kolab newbie, how do I add mail users to a kolab domain?

On 12-09-2018 18:44, Axel wrote:
> Hi Adi,
> 
> do you need completely separated domains?
> If not, you can just add virtual domains to your primary domain by 
> opening
> your domain list and click on the "+" and add as many you want.
> 
> After that you can use these virtual domain and add secondary email 
> adresses
> to your users.
> 
> This way every user on your system is able to use these virtual 
> domains/
> emailadresses.
> 
> 
> The other way is to completely separate the domains from each other as
> Thimotheus described.

Thanks for the pointers Axel. Let me describe first my environment and 
how I'm intending to slot Kolab in.

We're using a number of Plesk servers which are storing the mailboxes 
for our hosted domains. In front of them we're using a mail proxy 
cluster based on Postfix and Dovecot. Dovecot acts as proxy and has been 
configured as per 
https://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy article. 
Postfix is configured to use rimap saslauthd auth mechanism for SMTP 
authentication.
Now, what we're looking at is adding calendar / contacts / tasks / notes 
groupware abilities and Kolab's version of Roundcube seems to offer a 
seamless integration. One of the options we have is to import the 
existing domains & users into Kolab's LDAP *without* setting up 
mailboxes in Kolab, since all the mailboxes are in Plesk. Kolab 
authenticates the user against LDAP, but Roundcube will connect for IMAP 
to the Dovecot proxy instead of using the existing Cyrus IMAP service.

Looks like the multi-domain approach might work in my case.

> Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2018, 05:45:26 CEST schrieb Adi Pircalabu:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've just started recently to look at Kolab as a groupware suite and I
>> must admit I've just hit a massive roadblock: I can apparently create
>> kolab domains as "additional domain namespaces", but can't add 
>> mailboxes
>> to these domains. I'm most likely missing the obvious, so my 
>> question(s)
>> might look dumb :)
>> Following the instructions from
>> https://docs.kolab.org/administrator-guide/configuring-the-kolab-server.html
>> I went into the webadmin portal as Directory Manager and, using "Add
>> Domain" link to the right of the Domains page, added a new domain 
>> named
>> 0adit1.local. Select Status=active. Then I went to the "Users" page 
>> and
>> selected "Account Type"="Kolab User". Filled in the mandatory fields, 
>> then
>> in the "Contact Information" I'm seeing the "Primary Email Address" 
>> greyed
>> out, with a preset value and I've got 2 secondary email
>> addresses, all 3 using the domain part of the FQDN. Since my FQDN is
>> ktest1.kolab.local, the domain part used for the email addresses is
>> @kolab.local.
>> Now, what type of user should I create to be able to use 0adit1.local
>> for the mailboxes? Do I need to add an additional unit / group etc in
>> the webadmin, then select the new unit in the "Organizational Unit"
>> dropdown?
>> Running kolab-16.0.1-12.2.el7.kolab_16.x86_64 installed via RPM on
>> CentOS 7.
>> 
>> Any pointers are welcome. Thanks,

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Adi Pircalabu