Client setup - Windows - Outlook 2003
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Using Outlook 2000/2003 with kolab2
Kolab 2 can be used directly without any Outlook connector or plugin if plain support for email is sufficent.
Add IMAP account
In Outlook, click on tools > email accounts... Select "Add a new e-mail account, click next Select IMAP and click next Enter your name, email address and name of server Be careful with your username, it is likely to be your full email address (ie myname@mydomain.com) Click next, done.
It may ask you to make a personal folders file, this is to store your personal contacts, calendar etc.
Add LDAP address book
Click tools > email accounts... Select "Add a new directory or address book" and click next Select "Internet Directory Service (LDAP)" and click next Enter the server name, click next to finish OPTIONAL: click More Settings... Click the search tab and enter in the search base "dc=mydomain,dc=com" <edit this>
Outlook and the kolab resmgr filter
You may find that outlook changes the headers of mail (no other mail program I found does this) so that when replying to mail you get an "Invalid From: Header" bounce. To fix this you will need to cripple the kolab filter: Edit the file /kolab/etc/resmgr/resmgr.conf and comment out the $params['verify_from_header'] = true; line.
// Should we make sure that the sender and From header match for mail // that origins on this server? //$params['verify_from_header'] = true;
Check that this works and fixes the problem, then edit the template in /kolab/etc/kolab/templates/resmgr.conf.template (otherwise the next change you make in the web interface will overwrite your changes)
Retrieving Freebusy Lists
The freebusy-String is set to
https://username:password@servername/freebusy/%NAME%@%SERVER%.ifb
Note that you need to have the SSL certificate fully accepted by Windows so that no questions will pop up otherwise retrieving the freebusy information will silently fail.
Your username probably has an '@' symbol which needs to substituted with '%40' so the freebusy string might look like this
https://user%40kolabserver:password@servername/freebusy/%NAME%@%SERVER%.ifb
(See the Document about Outlook 2003 setup with Toltec2 (aka Doc3) which also describes how to do this in more detail, can be reached from the [Documentation Section on www.kolab.org].
If you don't want to store your password it is possible to deaktivate the Apache-authentication by the Kolab-Webadmininterface or to modify the LDAP-Objekt k=kolab directly to:
apache-allow-unauthenticated-fb: TRUE
Now
https://servername/freebusy/%NAME%@%SERVER%.ifb
will work also.
