[Obm] New recruit testing 2.4-rc2 on Ubuntu 10.04.3 (64-bit)

[Stéphane Colson]

 Hi Ian, thanks for your feedback,

 Concerning your will to help us with the english mistakes in OBM, I am 
 very interested in collecting everything you can notice (directly by 
 email is ok). I am also interested in all kind of bugs report.
 For all the other points, someone else with a better skill in OB 
 integration than me, will answer to you.

 Thanks again,
-- 
 Stéphane Colson
 QA OBM

 On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:31:50 +0100, Ian McMichael wrote:
> Bonjour (sorry but that is as far as my written French goes without 
> error!),
>
> I am very impressed at having found the OBM project. I see it as an 
> open
> source alternative to Microsoft Small Business server, which I have
> seeking for many years. Previously I have had a go a rolling my own
> solutions using OpenLDAP, Dovecot, Postfix and SAMBA.
>
> I have been studying the wiki and testing the new 2.4 release on 
> Ubuntu
> LTS Server (10.04.3 64-bit) with a fresh installation in a virtual
> machine. I am using the Debian repository at http://deb.obm.org/daily 
> as
> my source. Ideally I would like to use MySQL as the database back-end
> but understand the limitations of this with Minig at the moment.
>
> The main issues I have found so far are that the 2.4 .deb files 
> require
> old packages only found in the Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.x) LTS release. To
> work-around this I have added the following (in addition to the OBM
> daily repository) to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ hardy main
> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ hardy-updates main
> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ hardy-security main
>
> Then, to prevent any of these old packages from taking preference, I
> created /etc/apt/preferences containing the following:
>
> Packages: *
> Pin: release n=hardy
> Pin-Priority: 10
>
> This then allows the basic installation to succeed by typing:
>
> apt-get install obm mysql-server php5-mysql
>
> OBM Satellite starts and immediately dies as it can't write its PID 
> to
> the .run file. To fix this, I needed to type (as root or prefixed by 
> sudo):
>
> mkdir /var/run/obm
> service obm-satellite start
>
> After this I have all the basic OBM 2.4 services running for e-mail 
> with
> LDAP integration. As you probably guessed, my preferred language is
> English and I noticed a few mistakes and omissions in the 2.4
> translations. The first being the Logon button on the OBM home page!
>
> I have a few questions, which I am hoping others on the list can 
> assist
> me with:
>
> 1. Do you agree with my approach for getting 2.4 to install on Ubuntu 
> Lucid?
> 2. Why did the daily builds stop on 31st March? They are stuck at rc2
> but I see from the releases page that rc5 is out and could well fix 
> some
> of the bugs I noted above.
> 3. I have not had much luck getting Minig to work in this environment
> yet. Ideally I would use Roundcube as I am already familiar with 
> this.
> Is there any pre-release documentation I could test to try and get 
> this
> working?
> 4. How can I assist with translation work and help improve the 
> English
> support in 2.4?
> 5. If I were to implement a new server, are the 2.4 release 
> candidates
> the best way to go or should I use 2.3.x and then migrate when 2.4 is
> finally released?
>
> Thanks for all your work on 2.4 so far. Hopefully I can assist in any
> way possible to making it a great release?
>
> Regards,