Scalix: Linux Administrator’s Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Email and Groupware: History and Basics
• A Brief History of Email
• The 1960s—CTSS and MIT
• The '70s—From MULTICS to RFC Standards
• The Story of @
• RFCs—Request for Comments
• Mailing Lists, Sendmail, X.400, BBS, and More
• The '90s: Groupware, the WWW, and Microsoft
• How does Email Work?
• Sending Mail—the User View
• The Protocols Involved
• SMTP
• POP
• IMAP
• MAPI—IMAP, the Microsoft Way
• MIME
• Headers—What Does an Email Look Like?

• Storing the Groupware Data
• Directory Services—DAP and LDAP
• VCAL, ICAL, GroupDAV, CalDAV, WebDAV, ...
• Groupware Definitions

• Summary

• Chapter 2: Scalix Groupware
• The History of Scalix: Why HP Won the "Bury The Gold" Award
• Abandoning OpenMail
• Scalix at First Glance—SAC and SWA
• Scalix Web Access—the Web Client
• Scalix Architecture and Protocols
• Protocols
• User Types
• Mailnodes
• Services
• Daemons
• Queues
• The Message Store
• Scalix Versions and Packages
• Licenses
• Platforms and Hardware Requisites
• Packages
• Add-Ons
• Getting Help
• The Scalix Website
• Manual Pages
• Online Help
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Installing Scalix
• Installing Scalix on OpenSUSE
• Download Community Edition from the Scalix Website
• Checking and Troubleshooting the System Before Installation
• DNS Integration
• Continuing Installation
• Three Steps for Initial Configuration
• Setting Up the Server
• Testing the Installation
• Installing Scalix on Fedora Core
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Advanced Installations
• Advice for Installation
• Checklist for Accessing the Graphical Installation
• Graphical Installation on Windows Using NoMachine
• Setting Up Your First NoMachine Session
• Text-Based Installation
• Uninstalling, Updating, and Reconfiguring Scalix
• Uninstalling Scalix
• Updating and Reconfiguring

• Advanced Installations—Multi-Server Setup
• Distributing Scalix Services on Multiple Hosts
• Troubleshooting Installation

• Summary

• Chapter 5: First Steps with Scalix Admin Console and Scalix Web Access
• SAC at a Glance
• Logging In
• A First Look Around
• Navigating in the Admin Console
• Users, Groups, Resources...
• Changing Passwords
• Filtering the List
• Adding a User
• Playing with Filters
• Testing the New Account—Logging into SWA
• Sending the First Email

• Summary

• Chapter 6: Administration and Configuration
• Deploying Clients
• Installing Scalix Connect for Outlook
• Installing Outlook as a Client
• A New Account
• Changing an Existing Account
• Adding an Outlook Profile
• Setting Up Outlook for the Scalix Server
• SmartCache
• Starting Outlook 2000
• The SmartCache Icon and Context Menu
• Outlook 2003
• Installing the Scalix Evolution Connector
• Kmail/Kontact as IMAP Client
• Kontact as Groupware Client with a Scalix Server
• Scalix Email with Thunderbird
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Common Options and Documentation
• Global Configuration Files and Directories
• Scalix—Outlook: mapi.cfg
• Options and Parameters
• General Options
• IMAP and Addressing Options
• Item Structure Server, Local Delivery, and More
• POP, Public Folders, Queue
• Service Router and UAL Client Options
• Virus Protection
• Configuring Scalix Components
• Administration Commands
• Start/Stop Scalix
• Status and Other Information
• User Management
• Installation and Configuration
• Tuning
• Services
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Monitoring Scalix
• Standard Monitoring Commands
• Log Files and Logging
• Scalix Applications
• Checking the Limits
• The Error Manager
• Monitoring Scalix with Nagios
• Download and Installation
• Editing the Nagios Configuration
• Customizing the Configuration
• Services and Commands—the Hard Work
• Contacts and Contact Groups
• Nagios NRPE
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Scalix and Security
• Basic Security and Firewalls
• Linux Firewall Terminology
• iptables—the Standard Linux Firewall Tool
• The SUSEfirewall
• Securing Scalix with OpenVPN
• Generating Certificates
• VPN Client Access to the Server
• Setting Up a Web Proxy
• Stunnel
• Securing Scalix with https Redirection
• Configuring Apache2 for SSL Redirection

• Some More Ideas ...
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Backup and Restore
• Saving /var/opt/scalix
• Restoring /var/opt/scalix
• Incremental Backups to a Different Machine
• Exporting/Importing Single Mailboxes
• Automated Backups to File
• Importing Data with sxmboximp
• Backup Tools for Large Environments
• Logical Volume Management (LVM) Snapshots
• Sxbackup from the Scalix Admin Resource Kit
• Single Mail Restore with SEP sesam
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Scalix Directory Integration
• Integrating with an External LDAP Directory
• The Scalix LDAP Server
• Preparing a LDAP Server for Password Management
• Configuring Scalix for LDAP Authentication
• Active Directory Integration
• Installing the Active Directory Extensions
• Create a New Scalix-ADS User
• The Scalix ADS Extensions
• The Management Console Extension
• Activating Synchronization Agreements
• Synchronizing Contacts with Active Directory
• Summary

• Chapter 12: HA and Multi-Server Setups
• Multi-Server Setups
• The Common "Simple" Two-Node Cluster
• The "Cheap" Active-Passive Cluster
• Mailrouting in the Enterprise Edition: omaddrt
• Keeping Directories Synchronized
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Defeating Spam and Viruses
• Commercial or Open Source?
• Scalix Virus Scanning—How It Works
• Installing Clamav
• Setting Up Scalix for Virus Control
• Scalix Anti-Spam
• Authentication and Relay Control
• Summary

• Bibliography
• Links Used Throughout the Book:
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 7:
• Chapter 8:
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10:
• Chapter 11:
• Chapter 12:
• Acronyms Used
• Relevant RFCs

• Index