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Installation and Configuration Guide
Copyright © 2008-2011 Inverse inc. (http://inverse.ca)

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Version 1.3.10 – November 2011

 Contents

Chapter 1 About this Guide 3

Chapter 2 Introduction 4
Architecture 5

Chapter 3 System Requirements 6

Assumptions 6
Minimum Hardware Requirements 7
Operating System Requirements 8

Chapter 4 Installation 9
Software Downloads 9
Software Installation 9

Chapter 5 Configuration 10
GNUstep Environment Overview 10
Preferences Hierarchy 11
General Preferences 12
Authentication using LDAP 16
LDAP Attributes Indexing 20
Authenticating using C.A.S. 20
Database Configuration 21
Authentication using SQL 23
SMTP Server Configuration 25
IMAP Server Configuration 25
Web Interface Configuration 27
SOGo Configuration Summary 30
Multi-domains Configuration 31
Apache Configuration 34
Starting Services 34
Cronjob — EMail reminders 35
 Cronjob — Vacation messages expiration 35

Chapter 6 Managing User Accounts 36

Creating the SOGo Administrative Account 36
Creating a User Account 36

Chapter 7 Funambol 38

Chapter 8 Using SOGo 41

SOGo Web Interface 41
Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning 41
Apple iCal 3 and 4 42
Apple AddressBook (Mac OS X 10.6) 42
Funambol / Mobile Devices 43

Chapter 9 Upgrading 44

Chapter 10 Additional Information 45

Chapter 11 Commercial Support and Contact Information 46

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1 About this Guide

This guide will walk you through the installation and configuration of the SOGo solution. It also
covers the installation and configuration of Funambol – the middleware used to synchronize
mobile devices with SOGo.

The instructions are based on version 1.3.10 of SOGo, and version 8.7 of Funambol.

The latest version of this guide is available at

http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/documentation.html.

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2 Introduction

SOGo is a free and modern scalable groupware server. It offers shared calendars, address books,
and emails through your favourite Web browser and by using a native client such as Mozilla
Thunderbird and Lightning.

SOGo is standard-compliant. It supports CalDAV, CardDAV, GroupDAV, iMIP and iTIP and
reuses existing IMAP, SMTP and database servers - making the solution easy to deploy and
interoperable with many applications.

SOGo features :

❏ Scalable architecture suitable for deployments from dozens to many thousands of users
❏ Rich Web-based interface that shares the look and feel, the features and the data of Mozilla
Thunderbird and Lightning
❏ Improved integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning by using the SOGo Connector
and the SOGo Integrator
❏ Two-way synchronization support with any SyncML-capable devices (BlackBerry, Palm,
Windows CE, etc.) by using the Funambol SOGo Connector

SOGo is developed by a community of developers located mainly in North America and

Europe. More information can be found at http://www.sogo.nu

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Architecture

The following diagram demonstrates the SOGo architecture.

Standard protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV, GroupDAV, HTTP, IMAP and SMTP are used to
communicate with the SOGo platform or its sub-components. Mobile devices supporting the
SyncML standard use the Funambol middleware to synchronize information.

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3 System Requirements

Assumptions

SOGo reuses many components in an infrastructure. Thus, it requires the following :

❏ Database server (MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle)

❏ LDAP server (OpenLDAP, Novell eDirectory, Microsoft Active Directory and others)
❏ SMTP server (Postfix, Sendmail and others)
❏ IMAP server (Courier, Cyrus IMAP Server, Dovecot and others)

In this guide, we assume that all those components are running on the same server (i.e.,
“localhost” or “127.0.0.1”) that SOGo will be installed on.

Good understanding of those underlying components and GNU/Linux is required to install

SOGo. If you miss some of those required components, please refer to the appropriate
documentation and proceed with the installation and configuration of these requirements before
continuing with this guide.

The following table provides recommendations for the required components, together with
version numbers :

Database server PostgreSQL 7.4 or later

LDAP server OpenLDAP 2.3.x or later
SMTP server Postfix 2.x
IMAP server Cyrus IMAP Server 2.3.x or later

More recent versions of the software mentioned above can also be used.

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Minimum Hardware Requirements

The following table provides hardware recommendations for the server, desktops and mobile
devices :

Server Evaluation and testing

◾ Intel, AMD, or PowerPC CPU 1 GHz
◾ 512 MB of RAM (without Funambol, 1 GB RAM otherwise)
◾ 1 GB of disk space

Production
◾ Intel, AMD or PowerPC CPU 3 GHz
◾ 2048 MB of RAM
◾ 10 GB of disk space (excluding the mail store)
Desktop General
◾ Intel, AMD, or PowerPC CPU 1.5 GHz
◾ 1024x768 monitor resolution
◾ 512 MB of RAM
◾ 128 Kbps or higher network connection

Microsoft Windows
◾ Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Vista

Apple Mac OS X
◾ Apple Mac OS X 10.2 or later

Linux
◾ Your favourite GNU/Linux distribution
Mobile Device Any mobile device which supports the SyncML 1.0 or 1.1 standard.

Recommended
◾ Palm OS based devices with Synthesis SyncML Client
◾ Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry devices with Funambol client
◾ Microsoft Windows Mobile PocketPC or SmartPhone with the
Funambol client

Apple iPhone / iPod / iPad using Apple iOS 3.0 or later

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Operating System Requirements

The following 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems are currently supported by SOGo :

❏ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 5 and 6

❏ Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS) 5 and 6
❏ Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny) and 6.0 (Squeeze)
❏ Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), Karmic (9.10), Lucid (10.04), Maverick (10.10) and Natty (11.04)
Make sure the required components are started automatically at boot time and that they are
running before proceeding with the SOGo configuration. Also make sure that you can install
additional packages from your standard distribution. For example, if you are using Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5, you have to be subscribed to the Red Hat Network before continuing with
the SOGo software installation.

This document covers the installation of SOGo under RHEL 5.

For installation instructions on Debian and Ubuntu, please refer directly to the SOGo website at
http://www.sogo.nu. Under the downloads section, you will find links for installation steps for
Debian and Ubuntu.

Note that once the SOGo packages are installed under Debian and Ubuntu, this guide can be
followed in order to fully configure SOGo.

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4 Installation

This section will guide you through the installation of SOGo together with its dependencies. The
steps described here apply to an RPM-based installation for a Redhat or CentOS distribution.

Software Downloads

SOGo can be installed using the YUM utility. To do so, first create the
/etc/yum.repos.d/inverse.repo configuration file with the following content :

[SOGo]
name=Inverse SOGo Repository
baseurl=http://inverse.ca/downloads/SOGo/RHEL5/$basearch
gpgcheck=0

Some of the softwares on which SOGo depends are available from the repository of RPMforge.
To add RPMforge to your packages sources, download and install the appropriate RPM package
from http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/. Also make sure you enabled the “rpmforge-extras”
repository.

For more information on using RPMforge, visit http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using.

Software Installation

Once the YUM configuration file has been created, you are now ready to install SOGo and its
dependencies. To do so, proceed with the following command :

yum install sogo

This will install SOGo and its dependencies such as GNUstep, the SOPE packages and
memcached. Once the base packages are installed, you need to install the proper database
connector suitable for your environment. You need to install sope49-gdl1-postgresql for the
PostgreSQL database system, sope49-gdl1-mysql for MySQL or sope49-gdl1-oracle for
Oracle. The installation command will thus look like this :

yum install sope49-gdl1-postgresql

Once completed, SOGo will be fully installed on your server. You are now ready to configure it.

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5 Configuration

In this section, you'll learn how to configure SOGo to use your existing LDAP, SMTP and
database servers. As previously mentioned, we assume that those components run on the same
server on which SOGo is being installed. If this is not the case, please adjust the configuration
parameters to reflect those changes.

GNUstep Environment Overview

SOGo makes use of the GNUstep environment. GNUstep is a free software implementation of
the OpenStep specification which provides many facilities for building all types of server and
desktop applications. Among those facilities, there is a configuration API similar to the "Registry"
paradigm in Microsoft Windows. In OpenSTEP, GNUstep and MacOS X, these are called the
"user defaults".

Under GNUstep, a specific file keeps all the user's applications settings and will be edited
during our installation. It is located in /home/sogo/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults
as the file belongs to the “sogo” user. We will use a command-line tool named defaults to
edit this configuration database. You can also use your favourite text editor. However, prior to
edit this file, it is strongly suggested to make a backup of the file. The GNUstep environment
could erase the file if its content is not properly formatted.

The .GNUstepDefaults file is a serialized property list. This simple format encapsulates four
basic data types: arrays, dictionaries (or hashes), strings and numbers. Numbers are represented
as-is, except for booleans which can take the unquoted values “YES” and “NO”. Strings are not
mandatorily quoted, but doing so will avoid you many problems. A dictionary is a sequence of
key and value pairs separated in their middle with a “=” sign. It starts with a “{“ and ends with a
corresponding “}”. Each value definition in a dictionary ends with a semicolon. An array is a
chain of values starting with “(“ and ending with “)”, where the values are separated with a “,”.
Also, the file generally follows a C-style indentation for clarity but this indentation is not
required, only recommended.

Each GNUstep application has its own configuration domain. The domain specific to SOGo is
named sogod. A global domain may also exist, which contains default settings for all
applications. This domain is named NSGlobalDomain but will not be used here.

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Preferences Hierarchy

SOGo supports domain names segregation, meaning that you can separate multiple groups of
users within one installation of SOGo. A user associated to a domain is limited to access only
the users data from the same domain. Consequently, the configuration parameters of SOGo are
defined on three levels:

Each level inherits the preferences of the parent level. Therefore, domain preferences define the
defaults values of the user preferences, and the system preferences define the default values of
all domains preferences. Both system and domains preferences are defined in the GNUstep user
defaults, while the users preferences are configurable by the user and stored in SOGo's
database.

To identify the level in which each parameter can be defined, we use the following
abbreviations in the tables of this document :

S Parameter exclusive to the system and not configurable per domain

D Parameter exclusive to a domain and not configurable per user
U Parameter configurable by the user

Remember that the hierarchy paradigm allow the default value of a parameter to be defined at a
parent level.

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General Preferences

Proceed with the following commands to create the basic configuration file for SOGo :

su - sogo
defaults write sogod SOGoTimeZone "America/Montreal"
defaults write sogod SOGoMailDomain "acme.com"
defaults write sogod SOGoLanguage English
defaults write sogod SOGoAppointmentSendEMailNotifications YES
defaults write sogod SOGoFoldersSendEMailNotifications YES
defaults write sogod SOGoACLsSendEMailNotifications YES

The following table describes the general parameters that can be set :

S WOWorkersCount The amount of instances of SOGo that will

be spawned to handle multiple requests
simultaneously. When started from the init
script, that amount is overriden by the
“PREFORK” value in /etc/sysconfig/sogo
or /etc/default/sogo. A value of 3 is a
reasonable default for low usage. The
maximum value depends on the CPU and IO
power provided by your machine : a value
set too high will actually decrease
performances under high load.
Defaults to 1 when unset.
S WOPort The TCP port used by the SOGo daemon.
Defaults to 20000 when unset.
S WOLogFile The file path where to log messages. Specify
- to log to the console.
Defaults to /var/log/sogo/sogo.log.
S WOPidFile The file path where the parent process id will
be written.
Defaults to /var/run/sogo/sogo.pid.
S SxVMemLimit Parameter used to set the maximum amount
of memory (in megabytes) that a child can
use. Reaching that value will force children
processes to restart, in order to preserve
system memory.
Defaults to 384.
S SOGoMemcachedHost Parameter used to set the hostname or IP
address of the memcached server.
Defaults to localhost.
S SOGoCacheCleanupInterval Parameter used to set the expiration (in

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seconds) of each object in the cache.

Defaults to 300.
S SOGoAuthenticationType Parameter used to define the way by which
users will be authenticated. For C.A.S.,
specify “cas”. For anything else, leave that
value empty.
S SOGoCASServiceURL When using C.A.S. authentication, this
specifies the base url for reaching the C.A.S.
service. This will be used by SOGo to deduce
the proper login page as well as the other
C.A.S. services that SOGo will use.
D SOGoTimeZone Parameter used to set a default time zone for
users. The default timezone is set to UTC. The
Olson database is a standard database that
takes all the time zones around the world
into account and represents them along with
their history. On GNU/Linux systems, time
zone definition files are available under
/usr/share/zoneinfo. Listing the available
files will give you the name of the available
time zones. This could be
America/New_York, Europe/Berlin,
Asia/Tokyo or Africa/Lubumbashi.
In our example, we set the time zone to
America/Montreal
D SOGoMailDomain Parameter used to set the default domain
name used by SOGo. SOGo uses this
parameter to build the list of valid email
addresses for users.
In our example, we set the default domain to
acme.com
D SOGoAppointmentSendEMailNotifications Parameter used to set whether SOGo sends
or not email notifications to meeting
participants. Possible values are :
◾ YES – to send notifications
◾ NO – to not send notifications
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoFoldersSendEMailNotifications Same as above, but the notifications are
triggered on the creation of a calendar or an
address book.
D SOGoACLsSendEMailNotifications Same as above, but the notifications are sent
to the involved users of a calendar or address
book's ACLs.
D SOGoCalendarDefaultRoles Parameter used to define the default roles
when giving permissions to a user to access a
calendar. Must be an array of up to five
strings. Each string defining a role for an

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event category must begin with one of those

values:
◾ Public
◾ Confidential
◾ Private
And each string must end with one of those
values:
◾ Viewer
◾ DAndTViewer
◾ Modifier
◾ Responder
The array can also contain one or many of
the following strings:
◾ ObjectCreator
◾ ObjectEraser
Example: SOGoCalendarDefaultRoles =
("ObjectCreator", "PublicViewer");
Defaults to no role when unset.
Recommended values are "PublicViewer"
and “ConfidentialDandTViewer”.
D SOGoContactsDefaultRoles Parameter used to define the default roles
when giving permissions to a user to access
an address book. Must be an array of one or
many of the following strings:
◾ ObjectViewer
◾ ObjectEditor
◾ ObjectCreator
◾ ObjectEraser
Example: SOGoContactsDefaultRoles =
("ObjectEditor");
Defaults to no role when unset.
D SOGoSuperUsernames Parameter used to set which usernames
require administrative privileges over all the
users tables. For example, this could be used
to post events in the users calendar without
requiring the user to configure his/her ACLs.
In this case you will need to specify those
superuser's usernames like this :
SOGoSuperUsernames = (<username1>[,
<username2>, ...]);
U SOGoLanguage Parameter used to set the default language
used in the Web interface for SOGo. Possible
values are :
◾ BrazilianPortuguese
◾ Czech
◾ Dutch
◾ English
◾ French
◾ German

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◾ Hungarian
◾ Italian
◾ Russian
◾ Spanish
◾ Swedish
◾ Welsh
U SOGoAppointmentSendEMailReceipts Parameter used to set whether SOGo sends
or not email receipts to the organizer.
Possible values are :
◾ YES – to send notifications
◾ NO – to not send notifications
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoLDAPContactInfoAttribute Parameter used to specify an LDAP attribute
that should be displayed when auto-
completing user searches.
D SOGoiPhoneForceAllDayTransparency When set to YES, this will force all-day events
sent over by iPhone OS based devices to be
transparent. This means that the all-day
events will not be considered during freebusy
lookups. Defaults to NO when unset.
S SOGoEnablePublicAccess Parameter used to allow or not your users to
share publicly (ie., requiring not
authentication) their calendars and address
books.
Possible values are :
◾ YES – to allow them
◾ NO – to prevent them from doing so
Defaults to NO when unset.
S SOGoPasswordChangeEnabled Parameter used to allow or not users to
change their passwords from SOGo.
Possible values are :
◾ YES – to allow them
◾ NO – to prevent them from doing so
Defaults to NO when unset.
S SOGoSupportedLanguages Parameter used to configure which languages
are available from SOGo's Web interface.
Available languages are specified as an array
of string. The default value is :
( "Czech", "Welsh", "English",
"Spanish", "French", "German",
"Italian", "Hungarian", "Dutch",
"BrazilianPortuguese", "Polish",
"Russian", Ukrainian", "Swedish" )

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Authentication using LDAP

SOGo can use a LDAP server to authenticate users and, if desired, to provide global address
books. SOGo can also use an SQL backend for this purpose (see the section Authentication
using SQL later in this document). Proceed with the following commands to configure an
authentication and global address book using an LDAP directory server :

su – sogo
defaults write sogod SOGoUserSources '({CNFieldName = cn;
IDFieldName = uid; UIDFieldName = uid; IMAPHostFieldName = mailHost;
baseDN = "ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindDN = "uid=sogo,ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindPassword = qwerty; canAuthenticate = YES; displayName =
"Shared Addresses"; hostname = "localhost"; id = public;
isAddressBook = YES; port=389})'

In our example, we use a LDAP server running on the same host where SOGo is being installed.

You can also, using the filter attribute, restrict the results to match various criteria. For example,
you could define the following filter to return only persons belonging to the organization
Inverse:

filter = "(objectClass='person' AND o='Inverse' AND active='TRUE')";

Since LDAP sources can serve as user repositories for authentication as well as address books,
you can specify the following for each source to make them appear in the address book
module:

displayName = "<the human identification name of the address book>";

isAddressBook = YES;

For certain LDAP sources, SOGo also supports indirect binds for user authentication. Here is an
example :

SOGoUserSources =
(
{
type = ldap;
CNFieldName = cn;
IDFieldName = cn;
UIDFieldName = sAMAccountName;
baseDN = "cn=Users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindDN = "cn=sogo,cn=Users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindFields = (sAMAccountName);
bindPassword = qwerty;
canAuthenticate = YES;
displayName = "Active Directory";
hostname = 10.0.0.1;
id = directory;

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isAddressBook = YES;
port = 389;
}
);

In this example, SOGo will use an indirect bind by first determining the user DN. That value is
found by doing a search on the fields specified in bindFields. Most of the time, there will be
only one field but it is possible to specify more in the form of an array (for example,
bindFields = (sAMAccountName, cn) ). When using multiple fields, only one of the fields
needs to match the login name. In the above example, when a user logs in, the login will be
checked against the sAMAccountName entry in all the user cards, and once this card is found,
the user DN of this card will be used for checking the user's password.

Finally, SOGo supports LDAP-based groups. Groups must be defined like any other
authentication sources (ie., canAuthenticate must be set to YES and a group must have a valid
email address). In order for SOGo to determine if a specific LDAP entry is a group, SOGo will
look for one of the following objectClass attributes :

❏ group
❏ groupOfNames
❏ groupOfUniqueNames
❏ posixGroup
You can set ACLs based on group membership and invite a group to a meeting (and the group
will be decomposed to its list of members upon save by SOGo). You can also control the
visibility of the group from the list of shared address books or during mail autocompletion by
setting the isAddressBook parameter to YES or NO. The following LDAP entry shows how a
typical group is defined :

dn: cn=inverse,ou=groups,dc=inverse,dc=ca
objectClass: groupOfUniqueNames
objectClass: top
objectClass: extensibleObject
uniqueMember: uid=alice,ou=users,dc=inverse,dc=ca
uniqueMember: uid=bernard,ou=users,dc=inverse,dc=ca
uniqueMember: uid=bob,ou=users,dc=inverse,dc=ca
cn: inverse
structuralObjectClass: groupOfUniqueNames
mail: [email protected]

The corresponding SOGoUserSources entry to handle groups like this one would be :

{
CNFieldName = cn;
IDFieldName = cn;
UIDFieldName = cn;
baseDN = "ou=groups,dc=inverse,dc=ca”;
bindDN = "cn=sogo,ou=services,dc=inverse,dc=ca";
bindPassword = zot;

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canAuthenticate = YES;
displayName = “Inverse Groups”;
hostname = 127.0.0.1;
id = inverse_groups;
isAddressBook = YES;
port = 389;
}

The following table describes the possible parameters related to a LDAP source :

D SOGoUserSources Parameter used to set the LDAP and/or SQL sources used
for authentication and global address books. Multiple
sources can be specified as an array of dictionaries. A
dictionary that defines an LDAP source can contain the
following values:
type the type of this user source, set to ldap for an LDAP
source
id the identification name of the LDAP repository. This
must be unique – even when using multiple domains.
CNFieldName the field that returns the complete name
IDFieldName the field that starts a user DN if bindFields is not used.
This field must be unique across the entire SOGo
domain
UIDFieldName the field that returns the login name
MailFieldNames an array of fields that returns the user's email addresses
(defaults to mail when unset)
SearchFieldNames an array of fields to to match against the search string
when filtering users (defaults to sn, displayName, and
telephoneNumber when unset)
IMAPHostFieldName (optional) the field that returns the IMAP hostname for the user
IMAPLoginFieldName the field that returns the IMAP login name for the user
(optional) (defaults to the value of UIDFieldName when unset)
baseDN the base DN of your user entries
KindFieldName (optional) if set, SOGo will try to determine if the value of the field
corresponds to either “group”, “location” or “thing”. If
that's the case, SOGo will consider the returned entry to
be a resource.

For LDAP-based sources, SOGo can also automatically

determine if it's a resource if the entry has the
“calendarresource” objectClass set.
MultipleBookingsFieldName if set, SOGo will read the value of that field and prevent
(optional) over-booking resources. If not set, 0 is considered,
which means no limit.

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filter (optional) the LDAP filter

scope (optional) either BASE, ONE or SUB
bindDN the DN of the login name to use for binding to your
server
bindPassword its password
bindAsCurrentUser if set to YES, SOGo will always keep binding to the
LDAP server using the DN of the currently authenticated
user. If bindFields is set, bindDN and bindPassword will
still be required to find the proper DN of the user.
bindFields (optional) an array of fields to use when doing indirect binds
hostname a space-delimited list of LDAP hostnames or LDAP
URLs
port port number of the LDAP server
encryption (optional) either SSL or STARTTLS
canAuthenticate If set to YES, this LDAP source is used for authentication
passwordPolicy If set to YES, SOGo will use the extended LDAP
Password Policies attributes. If you LDAP server does not
support those and you activate this feature, every LDAP
requests will fail.
isAddressBook if set to YES, this LDAP source is used as a shared
address book (with read-only access)
displayName (optional) if set as an address book, the human identification
name of the LDAP repository
ModulesConstraints (optional) limits the access of any module through a constraint
based on an LDAP attribute; must be a dictionary with
keys Mail, and/or Calendar, for example:
ModulesConstraints = {
Calendar = {
ou = employees;
};
};

The following parameters can be defined along the other keys of each entry of the
SOGoUserSources, but can also defined at the domain and/or system levels :

D SOGoLDAPContactInfoAttribute Parameter used to specify an attribute that

should appear in autocompletion of the web
interface.
D SOGoLDAPQueryLimit Parameter used to limit the number of returned
results from the LDAP server whenever SOGo
performs a LDAP query (for example, during
addresses completion in a shared address book).

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D SOGoLDAPQueryTimeout Parameter to define the timeout of LDAP

queries. The actual time limit for operations is
also bounded by the maximum time that the
server is configured to allow.
Defaults to 0 (unlimited).

LDAP Attributes Indexing

To ensure proper performance of the SOGo application, the following LDAP attributes must be
fully indexed :

❏ givenName
❏ cn
❏ mail
❏ sn

Please refer to the documentation of the software you use in order to index those attributes.

Authenticating using C.A.S.

SOGo natively supports C.A.S. authentication. For activating C.A.S. authentication you need
first to make sure that the SOGoAuthenticationType setting is set to “cas” and that the
SOGoCASServiceURL setting is configured appropriately.

The “tricky” part shows up when using SOGo as a frontend interface to an IMAP server as this
imposes constraints needed by the C.A.S. protocol to ensure secure communication between
the different services. Failing to take those precautions will prevent users from accessing their
mails, while still granting basic authentication to SOGo itself.

The first constraint is that the amount of workers that SOGo uses must be higher than 1 in order
to enable the C.A.S. service to perform some validation requests during IMAP authentication. A
single worker alone would not, by definition, be able to respond to the C.A.S. requests while
treating the user request that required the triggering of those requests. You must therefore
configure the WOWorkersCount setting appropriately.

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The second constraint is that the SOGo service must be accessible and accessed via https.
Moreover, the certificate issued by the SOGo server has to be recognized by the C.A.S. service.
In the case of a certificate issued by a third-party authority, there should be nothing to worry
about. In the case of a self-signed certificate, the certificate must be registered in the trusted
keystore of the C.A.S. application. The procedure to achieve this falls out of the scope of this
document but can be summarized as importing the certificate in the proper “keystore” using the
keytool utility and specifying the path for that keystore to the Tomcat instance which provides
the C.A.S. service. This is done by tweaking the javax.net.ssl.trustStore setting, either in
the catalina.properties file or in the command-line parameters.

If any of those constraints is unsatisfied, the webmail interface of SOGo will display an empty
email account. Unfortunately, SOGo has no possibility to detect which one is the cause of the
problem. The only indicators are log messages that at least pinpoint the symptoms:

“failure to obtain a PGT from the C.A.S. service”

Such an error will show up during authentication of the user to SOGo. It happens when the
authentication service has accepted the user authentication ticket but has not returned a “Proxy
Granting Ticket”.

“a CAS failure occurred during operation....”

This error indicate that an attempt was made to retrieve an authentication ticket for a third-party
service. Currently, IMAP is the only such service. Most of the time, this happens as a
consequence to the problem described above.

Database Configuration

SOGo requires a relational database system in order to store appointments, tasks and contacts
information. It also uses the database system to store personal preferences of SOGo users. In this
guide, we assume you use PostgreSQL so commands provided the create the database are
related to this application. However, other database servers are supported, such as MySQL and
Oracle.

First, make sure that your PostgreSQL server has TCP/IP connections support enabled.

Create the database user and schema using the following commands :

su – postgres
createuser --no-superuser --no-createdb –-no-createrole \
–-encrypted --pwprompt sogo
(specify “sogo” as password)
createdb -O sogo sogo

You should then adjust the access rights to the database. To do so, modify the configuration file
/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf in order to add the following line at the very beginning
of the file:

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host sogo sogo 127.0.0.1/32 md5

Once added, restart the PostgreSQL database service. Then, modify the SOGo configuration to
reflect your database settings :

su – sogo
defaults write sogod SOGoProfileURL
'postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_user_profile'
defaults write sogod OCSFolderInfoURL
'postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_folder_info'
defaults write sogod OCSSessionsFolderURL
'postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_sessions_folder'

The following table describes the parameters that were set :

D SOGoProfileURL Parameter used to set the database URL so that SOGo can
retrieve user profiles.
For MySQL, set the database URL to something like :
mysql://sogo:sogo@localhost:3306/sogo/sogo_user_p
rofile
D OCSFolderInfoURL Parameter used to set the database URL so that SOGo can
retrieve the location of user folders (address books and
calendars)
For Oracle, set the database URL to something like :
oracle://sogo:sogo@localhost:1526/sogo/sogo_folde
r_info
D OCSSessionsFolderURL Parameter used to set the database URL so that SOGo can
store and retrieve secured user sessions information. For
PostgreSQL, the database URL could be set to something
like :
postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_s
essions_folder
D OCSEMailAlarmsFolderURL Parameter used to set the database URL for email-based
alarms (that can be set on events and tasks). This parameter is
relevant only if SOGoEnableEMailAlarms is set to YES. For
PostgreSQL, the database URL could be set to something
like :
postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_a
larms_folder

See the “EMail reminders” section in this document for more

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If you're using MySQL, make sure in your my.cnf file you have :

[mysqld]
...
character_set_server=utf8
character_set_client=utf8

[client]
default-character-set=utf8

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8

and when you create the SOGo database, you correctly specify the charset :

create database sogo CHARSET='UTF8';

Authentication using SQL

SOGo can use a SQL-based database server for authentication. The configuration is very similar
to LDAP-based authentication.

The following table describes all the possible parameters related to a SQL source :

D SOGoUserSources Parameter used to set the SQL and/or LDAP sources used for
authentication and global address books. Multiple sources
can be specified as an array of dictionaries. A dictionary that
defines a SQL source can contain the following values :
type the type of this user source, set to sql for a SQL source
id the identification name of the SQL repository. This must be
unique – even when using multiple domains.
viewURL database URL of the view used by SOGo. The view
expects columns to be present. Required columns are :
◾ c_uid : will be used for authentication – it's a username
or [email protected]
◾ c_name : will be used to uniquely identify entries –
which can be identical to c_uid
◾ c_password : password of the user, plain text, md5 or
sha encoded
◾ c_cn : the user's common name
◾ mail : the user's email address

Other columns can exist and will actually be mapped

automatically if they have the same name as popular
LDAP attributes (such as givenName, sn, department,
title, telephoneNumber, etc.)

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userPasswordAlgorithm the algorithm used for password encryption. Possible

values are none, md5 and sha.
canAuthenticate if set to YES, this SQL source is used for authentication
isAddressBook if set to YES, this SQL source is used as a shared address
book (with read-only access)
authenticationFilter a filter that limits which users can authenticate from this
(optional) source
displayName (optional) if set as an address book, the human identification name of
the SQL repository
LoginFieldNames (optional) an array of fields that specifies the column names that
contain valid authentication usernames (defaults to c_uid
when unset)
MailFieldNames (optional) an array of fields that specifies the column names that
hold additional email addresses (beside the mail column)
for each user
IMAPLoginFieldName the field that returns the IMAP login name for the user
(optional) (defaults to c_uid when unset)
KindFieldName (optional) if set, SOGo will try to determine if the value of the field
corresponds to either “group”, “location” or “thing”. If
that's the case, SOGo will consider the returned entry to
be a resource.
MultipleBookingsFieldName if set, SOGo will read the value of that field and prevent
(optional) over-booking resources. If not set, 0 is considered, which
means no limit.

Here is an example of an SQL-based authentication and address book source:

SOGoUserSources =
(
{
type = sql;
id = directory;
viewURL = "postgresql://sogo:[email protected]:5432/sogo/sogo_view";
canAuthenticate = YES;
isAddressBook = YES;
userPasswordAlgorithm = md5;
}
);

Certain database columns must be present in the view/table, such as :

❏ c_uid - will be used for authentication – it's the username or [email protected])

❏ c_name - which can be identical to c_uid – will be used to uniquely identify entries

❏ c_password – password of the user, plain-text, md5 or sha encoded for now

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❏ c_cn - the user's common name – such as “John Doe”

❏ mail – the user's mail address

Note that groups are currently not supported for SQL-based authentication sources.

SMTP Server Configuration

SOGo makes use of a SMTP server to send emails from the Web interface, iMIP/iTIP messages
and various notifications. Proceed with the following commands to set the parameters for
sending mails :

su - sogo
defaults write sogod SOGoMailingMechanism smtp
defaults write sogod SOGoSMTPServer localhost

The following table describes the parameters that were set :

D SOGoMailingMechanism Parameter used to set how SOGo sends mail messages.

Possible values are :
◾ sendmail – to use the sendmail binary
◾ smtp – to use the SMTP protocol
D SOGoSMTPServer The DNS name or IP address of the SMTP server used when
SOGoMailingMechanism is set to smtp.
S WOSendMail The path of the sendmail binary.
Defaults to /usr/lib/sendmail.

IMAP Server Configuration

SOGo requires an IMAP server in order to let users consult their email messages, manage their
folders and more. Proceed with the following commands to set the parameters for the IMAP
server :

defaults write sogod SOGoDraftsFolderName Drafts

defaults write sogod SOGoSentFolderName Sent
defaults write sogod SOGoTrashFolderName Trash
defaults write sogod SOGoIMAPServer localhost

The following table describes the parameters that were set :

U SOGoDraftsFolderName Parameter used to set the IMAP folder name used

to store drafts messages.
Defaults to “Drafts” when unset.

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U SOGoSentFolderName Parameter used to set the IMAP folder name used

to store sent messages. Defaults to “Sent” when
unset.
U SOGoTrashFolderName Parameter used to set the IMAP folder name used
to store deleted messages. Defaults to “Trash”
when unset.
D SOGoIMAPServer Parameter used to set the DNS name or IP address
of the IMAP server used by SOGo. You can also
use SSL or TLS by providing a value using an URL,
such as :
◾ imaps://localhost:993
◾ imaps://localhost:143/?tls=YES
D SOGoSieveServer Parameter used to set the DNS name or IP address
of the Sieve (managesieve) server used by SOGo.
You must use an URL such as:
◾ sieve://localhost
◾ sieve://localhost:2000
Note that SSL or TLS are not currently supported.
U SOGoMailShowSubscribedFoldersOnly Parameter used to specify if the Web interface
should only show subscribed IMAP folders.
Possible values are :
◾ YES
◾ NO
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoIMAPAclStyle Parameter used to specify which RFC the IMAP
server implements with respect to ACLs. Possible
values are :
◾ rfc2086
◾ rfc4314
Defaults to “rfc4314” when unset.
D SOGoIMAPAclConformsToIMAPExt Parameter used to specify if the IMAP server
implements the Internet Message Access Protocol
Extension. Possible values are :
◾ YES
◾ NO
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoForceIMAPLoginWithEmail Parameter used to specify if, when logging in to
the IMAP server, the primary email address of the
user will be used instead of the username.
Possible values are :
◾ YES
◾ NO
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoMailSpoolPath Parameter used to set the path where temporary
email drafts are written.
Defaults to /tmp.

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S NGImap4ConnectionStringSeparator Parameter used to set the IMAP mailbox separator.

Setting this will also have an impact on the
mailbox separator used by Sieve filters. The default
separator is “/”.
D NGImap4ConnectionGroupPrefix Prefix to prepend to names in IMAP ACL
transactions, to indicate the name is a group name
not a user name. RFC4314 gives examples where
group names are prefixed with '$'. Dovecot, for
one, follows this scheme, and will, for example,
apply permissions for '$admins' to all users in
group 'admins' in the absence of specific
permissions for the individual user. The default
prefix is '$'.

Web Interface Configuration

The following additional parameters only affect the Web interface behaviour of SOGo.

S SOGoPageTitle Parameter used to define the Web page title.

Defaults to SOGo when unset.
U SOGoLoginModule Parameter used to specify which module to show
after login. Possible values are :
◾ Calendar
◾ Mail
◾ Contacts
Defaults to Calendar when unset.
S SOGoFaviconRelativeURL Parameter used to specify the relative URL of the
site favion.
When unset, defaults to the file sogo.ico under
the default web resources directory.
S SOGoZipPath Parameter used to specify the path of the zip
binary used to archive messages. Defaults to
/usr/bin/zip when unset.
D SOGoSoftQuotaRatio Parameter used to change the quota returned by
the IMAP server by multiplying it by the specified
ratio. Acts as a soft quota. Example: 0.8
U SOGoMailUseOutlookStyleReplies Parameter used to set if email replies should use
(not currently editable in Web interface) Outlook's style. Defaults to NO when unset.
U SOGoMailListViewColumnsOrder Parameter used to specify the default order of the
(not currently editable in Web interface) columns from the SOGo webmail interface. The
parameter is an array, for example :

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SOGoMailListViewColumnsOrder =
(Flagged, Attachment, Priority, From,
Subject, Unread, Date, Size);
D SOGoVacationEnabled Parameter used to activate the edition from the
preferences window of a vacation message.
Requires Sieve script support on the IMAP host.
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoForwardEnabled Parameter used to activate the edition from the
preferences window of a forwarding email
address. Requires Sieve script support on the
IMAP host.
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoSieveScriptsEnabled Parameter used to activate the edition from the
preferences windows of server-side mail filters.
Requires Sieve script support on the IMAP host.
Defaults to NO when unset.
D SOGoMailPollingIntervals Parameter used to define the mail polling intervals
(in minutes) available to the user. The parameter is
an array that can contain the following numbers:
◾ 1
◾ 2
◾ 5
◾ 10
◾ 20
◾ 30
◾ 60
Defaults to the list above when unset.
U SOGoMailMessageCheck Parameter used to define the mail polling interval
at which the IMAP server is queried for new
messages. Possible values are :
◾ manually
◾ every_minute
◾ every_2_minutes
◾ every_5_minutes
◾ every_10_minutes
◾ every_20_minutes
◾ every_30_minutes
◾ once_per_hour
Defaults to manually when unset.
D SOGoMailAuxiliaryUserAccountsEnabled Parameter used to activate the auxiliary IMAP
accounts in SOGo. When set to YES, users can
add other IMAP accounts that will be visible from
the SOGo Webmail interface.
Defaults to NO when unset.
U SOGoDefaultCalendar Parameter used to specify which calendar is used
when creating an event or a task. Possible values

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are :
◾ selected
◾ personal
◾ first
Defaults to selected when unset.
U SOGoDayStartTime The hour at which the day starts (0 through 12).
Defaults to 8 when unset.
U SOGoDayEndTime The hour at which the day ends (12 through 23).
Defaults to 18 when unset.
U SOGoFirstDayOfWeek The day at which the week starts in the week and
month views (0 through 6). 0 indicates Sunday.
Defaults to 0 when unset.
U SOGoFirstWeekOfYear Parameter used to defined how is identified the
first week of the year. Possible values are :
◾ January1
◾ First4DayWeek
◾ FirstFullWeek
Defaults to January1 when unset.
U SOGoTimeFormat The format used to display time in the timeline of
the day and week views. Please refer to the
documentation for the date command or the
strftime C function for the list of available format
sequence.
Defaults to %H:%M.
U SOGoCalendarCategories Parameter used to define the categories that can
be associated to events. This parameter is an array
of arbitrary strings.
Defaults to a list that depends on the language.
U SOGoCalendarDefaultCategoryColor Parameter used to define the default colour of
categories.
Defaults to #F0F0F0 when unset.
D SOGoFreeBusyDefaultInterval The number of days to include in the free busy
information. The parameter is an array of two
numbers, the first being the number of days prior
to the current day and the second being the
number of days following the current day.
Defaults to (7, 7) when unset.
U SOGoBusyOffHours Parameter used to specify if off-hours should be
automatically added to the free-busy information.
Off hours included weekends and periods
covered between SOGoDayEndTime and
SOGoDayStartTime.
Defaults to NO when unset.
U SOGoMailMessageForwarding The method the message is to be forwarded.
Possible values are :
◾ inline

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◾ attached
Defaults to inline when unset.
U SOGoMailReplyPlacement The reply placement with respect to the quoted
message. Possible values are :
◾ above
◾ below
Defaults to below.
U SOGoMailSignaturePlacement The placement of the signature with respect to the
quoted message. Possible values are :
◾ above
◾ below
Defaults to below.
U SOGoMailComposeMessageType The message composition format. Possible values
are :
◾ text
◾ html
Defaults to text.
S SOGoEnableEMailAlarms Parameter used to enable email-based alarms on
events and tasks. See the “EMail reminders”
section from this document for more information.
U SOGoContactsCategories Parameter used to define the categories that can
be associated to contacts. This parameter is an
array of arbitrary strings.
Defaults to a list that depends on the language.
D SOGoUIAdditionalJSFiles Parameter used to define the list of additional
JavaScript files loaded by SOGo for all displayed
web pages. This parameter is an array of strings
corresponding of paths to the arbitrary JavaScript
files.

SOGo Configuration Summary

The complete SOGo configuration file, which is located in

/home/sogo/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults should look like this :

{
"sogod" = {
SOGoProfileURL =
"postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_user_profile";
OCSFolderInfoURL =
"postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_folder_info";
OCSSessionsFolderURL =
“postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_sessions_folder”;
SOGoAppointmentSendEMailNotifications = YES;

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SOGoCalendarDefaultRoles = (
PublicViewer,
ConfidentialDAndTViewer
);
SOGoLanguage = English;
SOGoMailDomain = acme.com;
SOGoDraftsFolderName = Drafts;
SOGoIMAPServer = localhost;
SOGoUserSources = (
{
type = ldap;
CNFieldName = cn;
IDFieldName = uid;
UIDFieldName = uid;
baseDN = "ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindDN = "uid=sogo,ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindPassword = qwerty;
canAuthenticate = YES;
displayName = "Shared Addresses";
hostname = localhost;
id = public;
isAddressBook = YES;
port = 389;
}
);
SOGoMailingMechanism = smtp;
SOGoSMTPServer = 127.0.0.1;
SOGoSentFolderName = Sent;
SOGoTimeZone = America/Montreal;
SOGoTrashFolderName = Trash;
};
}

Multi-domains Configuration

If you want your installation to isolate two groups of users, you must define a distinct
authentication source for each domain. Following is the same configuration that now includes
two domains (acme and coyote) :

{
"sogod" = {
SOGoProfileURL =
"postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_user_profile";
OCSFolderInfoURL =
"postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_folder_info";
OCSSessionsFolderURL =
“postgresql://sogo:sogo@localhost:5432/sogo/sogo_sessions_folder”;
SOGoAppointmentSendEMailNotifications = YES;

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SOGoCalendarDefaultRoles = (
PublicViewer,
ConfidentialDAndTViewer
);
SOGoLanguage = English;
SOGoMailingMechanism = smtp;
SOGoSMTPServer = 127.0.0.1;
SOGoSentFolderName = Sent;
SOGoTimeZone = America/Montreal;
SOGoTrashFolderName = Trash;
SOGoIMAPServer = localhost;
domains = {
acme = {
SOGoMailDomain = acme.com;
SOGoDraftsFolderName = Drafts;
SOGoUserSources = (
{
type = ldap;
CNFieldName = cn;
IDFieldName = uid;
UIDFieldName = uid;
baseDN = "ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindDN = "uid=sogo,ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com";
bindPassword = qwerty;
canAuthenticate = YES;
displayName = "Shared Addresses";
hostname = localhost;
id = public_acme;
isAddressBook = YES;
port = 389;
}
);
};
coyote = {
SOGoMailDomain = coyote.com;
SOGoIMAPServer = imap.coyote.com;
SOGoUserSources = (
{
type = ldap;
CNFieldName = cn;
IDFieldName = uid;
UIDFieldName = uid;
baseDN = "ou=users,dc=coyote,dc=com";
bindDN = "uid=sogo,ou=users,dc=coyote,dc=com";
bindPassword = qwerty;
canAuthenticate = YES;
displayName = "Shared Addresses";
hostname = localhost;
id = public_coyote;
isAddressBook = YES;
port = 389;
}

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);
}
};
};
}

The following additional parameters only affect SOGo when using multiple domains.

S SOGoEnableDomainBasedUID Parameter used to activate user identification by

domain. Users will be able (without being
required) to login using the form
username@domain, meaning that values of
UIDFieldName no longer have to be unique
among all domains but only within the same
domain. Internally, users will always be identified
by the concatenation of their username and
domain. Consequently, activating this parameter
on an existing system implies that user identifiers
will change and their previous calendars and
address books will no longer be accessible unless
a conversion is performed.
Defaults to NO when unset.
S SOGoLoginDomains Parameter used to define which domains should
be selectable from the login page. This parameter
is an array of keys from the domains dictionary.
Defaults to an empty array, which means that no
domains appear on the login page.
S SOGoDomainsVisibility Parameter used to set domains visible among
themselves. This parameter is an array of arrays.
Example: SOGoDomainsVisibility = ((acme,
coyote));
Defaults to an empty array, which means domains
are isolated from each other.

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Apache Configuration

The SOGo configuration for Apache is located in /etc/httpd/conf.d/SOGo.conf.

Upon SOGo installation, a default configuration file is created which is suitable for most
configurations.

You must also configure the following parameters in the SOGo configuration file for Apache in
order to have a working installation :

RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-server-port" "80"

RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-server-name" "yourhostname"
RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-server-url" "http://yourhostname"

You may consider enabling SSL on top of this current installation to secure access to your SOGo
installation.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ssl/ for details.

You might also have to adjust the configuration if you have SELinux enabled.

The default configuration will use mod_proxy and mod_headers to relay requests to the sogod
parent process. This is suitable for small to medium deployments.

Starting Services

Once SOGo if fully installed and configured, start the services using the following command :

service sogod start

You may verify using the chkconfig command that the SOGo service is automatically started
at boot time. Restart the Apache service since modules and configuration files were added :

service httpd restart

Finally, you should also make sure that the memcached service is started and that it is also
automatically started at boot time.

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Cronjob — EMail reminders

SOGo allows you to set email-based reminders for events and tasks. To enable this, you must
enable the SOGoEnableEMailAlarms preference and set the OCSEMailAlarmsFolderURL
preference accordingly.

Once you've correctly set those two preferences, you must create a cronjob that will run under
the “sogo” user. This cronjob should be run every minute so an entry in the contrab should be
defined like :

* * * * * /path/to/sogo-ealarms-notify

Cronjob — Vacation messages expiration

When vacation messages are enabled (see the parameter “SOGoVacationEnabled”), users can
set an expiration date to messages auto-reply. For this feature to work, you must create a
cronjob under the “sogo” user. This cronjob should be run daily and defined like so :

0 * * * * /path/to/sogo-tool expire-autoreply

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6 Managing User Accounts

Creating the SOGo Administrative Account

First, create the SOGo administrative account in your LDAP server. The following LDIF file
(sogo.ldif) can be used as an example :

dn: uid=sogo,ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
uid: sogo
cn: SOGo Administrator
mail: [email protected]
sn: Administrator
givenName: SOGo

Load the LDIF file inside your LDAP server using the following command :

ldapadd -f sogo.ldif -x -w qwerty -D cn=Manager,dc=acme,dc=com

Finally, set the password (to the value “qwerty”) of the SOGo administrative account using the
following command :

ldappasswd -h localhost -x -w qwerty -D cn=Manager,dc=acme,dc=com

uid=sogo,ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com -s qwerty

Creating a User Account

SOGo uses LDAP directories to authenticate users. Use the following LDIF file (jdoe.ldif) as
an example to create a SOGo user account :

dn: uid=jdoe,ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: person

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objectClass: organizationalPerson
uid: jdoe
cn: John Doe
mail: [email protected]
sn: Doe
givenName: John

Load the LDIF file inside your LDAP server using the following command :

ldapadd -f jdoe.ldif -x -w qwerty -D cn=Manager,dc=acme,dc=com

Finally, set the password (to the value “qwerty”) of the SOGo administrative account using the
following command :

ldappasswd -h localhost -x -w qwerty -D cn=Manager,dc=acme,dc=com

uid=jdoe,ou=users,dc=acme,dc=com -s qwerty

As an alternative to using command-line tools, you can also use LDAP editors such as Luma or
Apache Directory Studio to make your work easier. These GUI utilities can make use of
templates to create and pre-configure typical user accounts or any standardized LDAP record,
along with the correct object classes, fields and default values.

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7 Funambol

The Funambol middleware allows you to synchronize mobile devices with SOGo through the
use of the Funambol SOGo Connector. The connector allows any SyncML enabled devices to
fully synchronize contacts, events and tasks with SOGo.

First of all, install and configure Funambol v8.7. We suppose Funambol was installed in
/opt/Funambol.

If running after installation, stop the Funambol server using :

/opt/Funambol/bin/funambol.sh stop

Download your preferred JDBC driver and move it to :

/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/lib/

The Funambol SOGo Connector currently supports only MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL. You
can download the jar file for PostgreSQL from http://jdbc.postgresql.org/. For Oracle, please
refer to the following site :
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/jdbc_10201.html and
download the ojdbc14.jar file. For MySQL, please refer to the following site :
http://dev.mysql.com/usingmysql/java/

You must also download the JSON.simple package from http://code.google.com/p/json-

simple/downloads/list and place it in :

/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/lib/

Then, download the funambol-sogo-1.0.8.s4j file from

http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/backend.html and move it to :

/opt/Funambol/ds-server/modules

Then, open the /opt/Funambol/ds-server/install.properties file and add "funambol-

sogo-1.0.8" at the end of the "modules-to-install" line.

Start the Funambol server using :

/opt/Funambol/bin/funambol start

Next, install the Funambol SOGo Connector within Funambol server by issuing the following
commands :

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cd /opt/Funambol/
./bin/install-modules

Answer 'yes' to all questions.

Then, configure the data sources for SOGo. To do so, start the Funambol Administration Tool
using the following command :

/opt/Funambol/admin/bin/funamboladmin

Log in.

Go in Modules > sogo > FunambolSOGoConnector > SOGo SyncSource and add a source for
each data type you would like to synchronize. For example, to synchronize an address book,
you would specify:

Source URI: sogo-card

Name: sogo-card
Supported type: text/x-vcard
Database URL: jdbc:postgresql://localhost/sogo
Database username: sogo
Database password: sogo

You can then do the same (and specify the same database connection information) for events
and tasks using sogo-cal and sogo-todo as sync source names and URI.

If you want to auto-create Funambol user accounts for every users that can authenticate to
SOGo, you can use the SOGoOfficer to do so. From the Funambol Administration Tool, in
"Server Settings", set the Officer to the following value :

ca/inverse/sogo/security/SOGoOfficer.xml

and save the preferences. Then, modify the following file :

/opt/Funambol/config/ca/inverse/sogo/security/SOGoOfficer.xml

change the host property to the host name value of your SOGo server. Change the port property
to the port value of your sogod daemon. No server restart is required. In our example, the file
would look like :

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<java version="1.4.0" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
<object class="ca.inverse.sogo.security.SOGoOfficer">
<void property="host">
<string>localhost</string>
</void>
<void property="port">
<string>20000</string>
</void>
</object>
</java>

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8 Using SOGo

SOGo Web Interface

To acces the SOGo Web Interface, point your Web browser, which is running from the same
server where SOGo was installed, to the following URL : http://localhost/SOGo

Log in using the “jdoe” user and the “qwerty” password. The underlying database tables will
automatically be created by SOGo.

Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning

Alternatively, you can access SOGo with a GroupDAV and a CalDAV client. A typical well-
integrated setup is to use Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Lightning along with Inverse's SOGo
Connector plug in to synchronize your address books and the Inverse's SOGo Integrator plug in
to provide a complete integration of the features of SOGo into Thunderbird and Lightning. Refer
to the documentation of Thunderbird to configure an initial IMAP account pointing to your
SOGo server and using the user name and password mentioned above.

With the SOGo Integrator plug in, your calendars and address books will be automatically
discovered when you login in Thunderbird. This plug in can also propagate specific extensions
and default user settings among your site. However, be aware that in order to use the SOGo
Integrator plug in, you will need to repackage it with specific modifications. Please refer to the
documentation published online:

http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/documentation.html.

If you only use the SOGo Connector plug in, you can still easily access your data.

To access your personal address book:

❏ Choose Go > Address Book.

❏ Choose File > New > Remote Address Book.
❏ Enter a significant name for your calendar in the Name field.
❏ Type the following URL in the URL field:
http://<hostname>/SOGo/dav/jdoe/Contacts/personal/

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❏ Click on OK.

To access your personal calendar:

❏ Choose Go > Calendar.

❏ Choose Calendar > New Calendar.
❏ Select On the Network and click on Continue.
❏ Select CalDAV.
❏ Type the following URL in the URL field:
http://localhost/SOGo/dav/jdoe/Calendar/personal/
❏ Click on Continue.

Apple iCal 3 and 4

Apple iCal 3 or 4 can also be used as a client application for SOGo.

To configure it so it works with SOGo, create a new account and specify, as the Account URL,
an URL such as :

http://localhost/SOGo/dav/jdoe/

Note that the trailing slash is important for Apple iCal 3.

Apple AddressBook (Mac OS X 10.6)

Apple AddressBook on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) can be configured to use SOGo.

In order to make this work, you must add a new virtual host in your Apache configuration file to
listen on port 8800 and handle requests coming from iOS devices.

The virtual host should be defined like :

<VirtualHost *:8800>
RewriteEngine Off
ProxyRequests Off
SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPassInterpolateEnv On
ProxyPass /principals http://127.0.0.1:20000/SOGo/dav/ interpolate
ProxyPass /SOGo http://127.0.0.1:20000/SOGo interpolate
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:20000/SOGo/dav/ interpolate

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<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
<Proxy http://127.0.0.1:20000>
RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-server-port" "8800"
RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-server-name" "acme.com:8800"
RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-server-url" "http://acme.com:8800"
RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-server-protocol" "HTTP/1.0"
RequestHeader set "x-webobjects-remote-host" "127.0.0.1"
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
</Proxy>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/ab-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/ab-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

This configuration is also required if you want to configure a CardDAV account on a Apple iOS
device (version 4.0 and later).

Funambol / Mobile Devices

You can synchronize contacts, events and tasks from SOGo with any mobile devices that
support SyncML.

Your Funambol server needs to be accessible from outside of your internal network as
synchronization happens over the air (“OTA”).

Once you've made your server visible from the Internet, please specify the following URL in
your SyncML client:

http://<external IP address>:8080/funambol/ds

Then, specify the following data sources:

❏ For contacts: sogo-card

❏ For events: sogo-cal

❏ For tasks: sogo-todo

The user name / password is the same as the one you can use to log in SOGo.

For more details on mobile devices, such as Apple iPhone, please refer to the SOGo Mobile
Devices – Installation and Configuration guide available from http://www.sogo.nu.

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9 Upgrading

This section describes what needs to be done when upgrading to the current version of SOGo
from the previous release.

1.3.8 to 1.3.9
For Red Hat-based distributions, version 1.23 of GNUstep will be installed. Since the location
of the Web resources changes, the Apache configuration file (SOGo.conf) has been adapted.
Verify your Apache configuration if you have customized this file.
1.3.9 to 1.3.10
No specific update procedure required.

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10 Additional Information

For more information, please consult the online FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) :

http://www.sogo.nu/english/support/faq.html

You can also read the mailing archives or post your questions to it. For details, see :

https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists

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11 Commercial Support and Contact

Information

For any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us by writing an email to :

[email protected]

Inverse (http://inverse.ca) offers professional services around SOGo and Funambol to help
organizations deploy the solution and migrate from their legacy systems.

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