Topic: SME Server ( Clone ? )

[kiruxadmin]

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[kiruxadmin]

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[gregswallow]

Ok guys what is next. How I can help. Greg Swallow: Thank you for your email.

Moses Odria
modria@kirux.net

You're welcome.  I'm sorry you didn't get a reply before.  I'm not sure who you sent your email to, but Contribs.org staff is not in charge of development.  There are renewed efforts now in developing SME but discussion is on Sourceforge - please join the mailing list here and re-post your suggestions or intended contributions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=96750 - You can download the latest alpha versions of SME7 (which is based on Centos 3.4) here: http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/e-smith/devel/isos/ (there are other mirrors too).  

Charlie Brady is the one building the ISO's and there are handful of other developers contributing.  

I can't speak for all, but personally I will trust that it was your intention to legally modify/sell your version of SME.  

And I do hope you will join the development of SME7 and discuss the inclusion of your suggested additions into the base distribution.  That can only be good for both products.  Welcome!

[dhardy]

I think we would all welcome additional input to any of the three (6.01+ , 6.5 and 7) forward directions on SME

Is the Kuadra SME Server a Contribs 6/6.5 base with tweaks or an SME7 base?

Is it using the templating system?

And thanks for coming to talk to us!

Regards


David.

[kiruxadmin]

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[CharlieBrady]

The point is, he's not making his modifications publically available. They are not posted for download by anyone and everyone. Rather, he is offering them for sale (which the GPL allows.) As the GPL requires only that you offer to make source available to those to whom you make your modifications available, then it is only his paying customers to whom he has an obligation.

No, that's not accurate. He has to *actually* provide the source to his customers, or he has to offer it to the customers, as well as offer it to "any third party".

Any of his customers can post the source publicly or distribute it in any other way, including give it to a third party.

[gregswallow]

The Kuadra uses kernel 2.6.10 (with updated kernel requirements), cyrus imap server, postfix mta, samba 3, samba vscan (virus detection on ibays), amavis-new, spamassasin, squid, squid-guard, openvpn, horde 3, mambo cms, etc. Most packages compiled from source.

Moses, you may have found already that SME7 includes Samba 3, Horde 3 and Spamassasin.  

From what I've quickly read amavis-new can be integrated with clamd (which is what is in sme7), and improves the speed of virus scanning.  So if you'd like to help with SME7, that may be a contribution you could offer to develop.  

There is already an option I think in the latest SME7 Alphas to scan ibays, I don't think its samba-vscan, but likely accomplishes the same thing.

Regarding cyrus/postfix vs dovecot/qmail - I think it would take a lot of convincing for the developers to change that - they've just spent quite a bit of time better integrating qmail and improving its features.  You may like what you see in SME7.  

I am not really familiar with ACL - There was some discussion here a while ago about using Cyrus - http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=25261.0.  For some it was an issue of needing shared mail folders.  There is a feature in dovecot that is currently unused in SME I think, but it might be what you are looking for: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2003-October/002497.html - I bet that could be integrated somehow in the server-manager of SME7

There is also an effort to create an Open-xchange add-on for SME7 - http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=26873.0

Regarding shared calendars - the Horde application Kronolith now does that - I am planning on packaging that into an rpm for SME7 soon.

Openvpn would also make an interesting addition to SME7 - There is a howto for openvpn on 6.x which you have likely seen:
http://sme.swerts-knudsen.com/howtos/howto_30.htm
- but it is not neatly integrated or packaged in an rpm.  

Anyways, we're getting a bit off-topic for this thread - hope to see you on the Sourceforge mailing list and we can discuss any of this more.

[kiruxadmin]

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[CharlieBrady]

I think at this time, may be the community could suggest some need to have packages to be included as the base system for the version 7.

I have my own opinion which is reflected in the Kuadra Server, but additional input to add or remove functionality would be great.

Hi there Moses!

I think your questions are best discussed on the Sourceforge list. IMO web forums really suck for discussion. See you on the sourceforge list!

[gregswallow]

I was just going to say the same thing - to post, just send an email to smeserver-developer@lists.sourceforge.net

[albatroz]

Although I have been a simple consumer of the site,
I have been installing several sme servers and certainly would like to have postfix instead of qmail.

I am not a developer, so I can´t force the opinion of the sme dev team.

Anyway I would like to follow this discussion in sourceforge, can somebody post the Url for subscription?

[kiruxadmin]

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[CharlieBrady]

Your opinions and suggestions are more than Welcome

As are yours, Moses. Unfortunately my reply mail to you bounced ('User unknown in local recipient table'). Please check your mail log files, and correct the problem. Talk to you soon.

[kiruxadmin]

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[CharlieBrady]

We had a little storm here in Texas and we lose power (extremely rare) for a while. It is normal now.

I know that Texas is an "unusual" place, but storms and lost power will not cause mail to bounce. You have (or had) a configuration error. Please check your mail logs.