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News and Announcements / Re: Planning to drop ebox-egroupware support, volunteers for maintaining it?

« on: August 23, 2010, 09:34:58 pm »

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Anyway, if any of you can contribute with detailed instructions on how
to do a good integration or even code it would be great.

While Ebox / Zentyal is based around tight integration of components, perhaps in the case of something as complicated / full-featured as Zimbra, it would be easier to only integrate the basics and delegate to the normal web UI for any advanced features? http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/LDAP_Authentication covers using an external LDAP server with Zimbra, which would allow authentication and Global Address List lookups to happen against the main / central / master LDAP in Zentyal, while Zimbra's LDAP is only used for Zimbra-specific things. The Zentyal web interface could be used for managing usernames, passwords and email addresses, while the user would use the Zimbra Admin UI for anything else, including email quotas, domains, away messages and all the other little options Zimbra has in the admin interface (like theme preferences for the Zimbra Web UI, distribution list membership, allow/disallow access to features like briefcase, etc ). We've found Zimbra to be easily the most professional / enterprisey solution for our needs, and will be looking to get it authenticating against Zentyal in our setup. Even if an easier-to-integrate option is chosen for the groupware module, a smaller module that just allows using the Zentyal LDAP to manage the mail attribute for a user without pulling in the entire dependencies for the alternate groupware would be useful.