SUCCESS!!!! eGroupware with Dovecot

[Derek Broughton]

Jan Sneep wrote:

> I can't believe it ... I just can't believe it ... I have been trying to
> find a way to share contacts between my wife and I since January ....
> first I tried OpenGroupware ... they said they had great Debian support so
> I installed Debian and tried for months to get it installed without any
> luck at all ... then someone suggested OpenLDAP, if all I wanted to do was
> share contact info ... so I tried that for weeks ... nadda ... then heard
> about OpenExchange and Ubuntu and though OK lets give that a try ... well
> after downloading the .jar files and getting the main program and the gui
> compiled and yet couldn't get the database to install, no matter how much
> I played with Cyrus and Postfix ... so then while looking in Synaptic this
> morning to see if I could find something to help with LDAP I spotted
> eGroupware ... and YESSSSSS it installed and YESSSS I was able to import
> my contacts from Outlook with just a few simple clicks ... No Dovecot
> isn't working properly, as far as I can tell, but now my wife is off my
> case about having to come down to my computer to look up info on our
> clients ... so email sharing will come with time and playing around (I'm
> sure I will have more questions for the list) ... but for now I wanted to
> 1) say thanks again to all those who have offered suggestions and advice
> to my past queries and 2) that I going out to the patio with a beer to
> celebrate !!!!!

LOL.  Probably the biggest problem with user-supported software is that you
can get great support as long as you know the question to ask, but
sometimes finding the question is the hardest part.

So if you've got problems with dovecot, ask here or email me - now we're
onto ground I'm much more confident with :-)

Since you imply the problem is with shared folders, I might suggest the
easiest way to deal with those is to just create a new user.  I never did
quite figure out how to make a shared folder with any variety of IMAP, but
if you create user "X" and create a link to that in your email program -
giving both you and your wife the password - then you can easily use that
as a source of shared folders.
-- 
derek