~kanarip

I'm very much pleased to be able to announce that Zarafa, one of the best Linux groupware suites, is now available through the standard Fedora and EPEL repositories.

After Zarafa itself had already announced inclusion to the repositories, news that was dented through major news sites such as heise.de, Robert Scheck and myself sat together at FOSDEM and worked on the packaging until we were both sufficiently satisfied.

It's currently set up to allow the maximum amount of flexibility one could ever wish for. Normally, the packages provided by Zarafa consist of the backend server, gateway (IMAP/POP), the PHP libraries needed for the Webmail interface, and too many other things to really build up a scalable infrastructure without installing all capabilities on all servers in such infrastructure -which introduces it's own world of pain.

Now, apparently, we still need to figure out some things. For one, I get a SIGPIPE / Broken pipe when I run zarafa-server with UNIX passwd authentication. The availability of a platform like Fedora (fast-pace moving forward) allows us however to solve this kind of issues way before Enterprise Linux 6 hits public beta.

You gotta love it!