Setup Mozilla Thunderbird for Kolab 2

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Note: This setup will not provide full Kolab functionality!
Most notably it currently lacks free/busy infromation
(e.g., seeing others calender for meeting invitations).
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Mozilla Thunderbird - Mail setup

Add an IMAP account to thunderbird:

  • Go to account settings (under tools or edit menu, seems different on linux and windows), add account.
  • Choose Email Account, click next
  • Enter name and email address, click next
  • Select IMAP as incoming server type
  • Enter hostname of incoming (and outgoing) server, click next
  • Enter username This defaults to your full email address! If you have not entered a different UID during setup, enter your full email address as your username, click next
  • Choose an account name, click next, click finish
  • You should now be on the account settings page. Select server settings for your new account and tick "use SSL" (This is optional, but recommended)
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Sync Kolab

This is a project that is attempting to bring Kolab functionality to Thunderbird. Please see http://www.gargan.org/extensions/synckolab.html for more details. You currently find the Sync Kolab add-on here, note that you will also need the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird found here.

To enable syncing with Kolab, you need to do the following:

  • Under the All Folders view, right click the Kolab account you set up for mail. Choose Subscribe.. and tick the folders you want to synchronise. Currently only Calendar and Contacts will work.
  • Choose SyncKolab Options under Tools. Choose New and follow the wizard making sure to un-tick Sync Tasks.
  • You may now synchronise Calendar and Contacts whenever you want by choosing Start SyncKolab under Tools.

SyncKolab currently supports:

  • sync of contacts with the Mozilla Thunderbird address book
  • sync calendar entries with the Lightning plugin
  • sync tasks with the Lightning plugin, but it is currently not working

SyncKolab does not support:

  • free/busy information
  • notes
  • automatic discovery of folders (annotations). You have to setup the folders on your own

There are some limitations due to the thunderbird address book/calendar implementation (especially when it comes to which fields are correctly synchronized), but for basic functionality everything should work fine.

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Mozilla Thunderbird - LDAP address book setup

  Via LDAP you get read-only access to the shared addressbook.
  • Open account settings and select your kolab server account, click on Composition and Addressing
  • In the addressing section, select "use a different LDAP server"
  • Click "Edit Directories"
  • Click "Add", give the addressbook a name and enter the kolab server's hostname.

The Base DN should be dc=yourdomain,dc=com (if your domain was yourdomain.com). For Bind DN use cn=yourfirstname yourlastname,dc=yourdomain,dc=com

Base DB and Bind DN require only the domain name, not the FQN of your server!

  • Click the "advanced" tab, in search filter, enter (objectclass=*) edit this - is there a better search filter? Better? Who knows, but another working filter is (mail=*).
  • Click OK to save changes
  • Highlight the new LDAP directory you just made, click edit, click offline tab, click download now. This should ask for a login; enter your login details and if you want, tick the box to save password. If nothing happens here, go back and check all your settings for the directory. Note: You might not see any addresses in the address book. Do not worry just yet.
  • Select Tools -> Options -> Composition -> Addressing. Put a check mark in "Directory Server" and select the directory you added.
  • Now when you enter addresses in the TO field of new mail, they will be autocompleted, or you will get a dropdown of possible matches
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