dovecot - Mar 2008 - Remote resources in kde-pim

For some time I have been using dovecot to serve imap mail on my LAN.  Now I 
want to add my diary and addressbook in kde-pim.  I have got the docs from 
the kde site, but they talk about cyrus, and I'm not able to translate some 
bits of the instructions into dovecot ones.  For instance, 

"At cyrus level (in the PC that runs IMAP server cyrus, with cyrus tools),
we
first need to add the user mary, so it's an IMAP recognised user, and create
an IMAP folder for her"

Can anyone give me a kickstart on this?

On the server box I can see the dimap calendar resource and addressbook 
resource, so I now need to be able to tell it to allow certain users to 
access it.  This is where I'm coming unstuck, and it looks as though no-one 
on the kde-pim list has done this with dovecot.

Anne

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On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Can anyone give me a kickstart on this?
Dunno exactly, I tried it once for a colleague, but don't use it myself:

1) enter KMail
2) Create an Identity that can login into IMAP successfully
3) Configure KMail | Misc | Groupware
3a) Enable IMAP resource functionality
3b) configure the remaining stuff on the dialogue

The information is saved as messages in special IMAP mail folders, so the 
ability to login into IMAP is essential.

I'm not sure, I think you need to do something in KOrganizer, e.g. pull in 
some remote calendar "IMAP", too.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Thanks for replying.  I have had IMAP mail for some time, but to get the
> resources working I need, apparently, to be able to log in as Groupware to
> access the shared resources.
>
> On the server I added sections to dovecot.conf and postfix main.cf as
> described in HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL.  In KMail, on the client, I
> used 'See what the server supports' and set it to TLS + clear text.
I don't
> appear to be getting a rejection, but the resources are not being read.
>
> /var/log/maillog shows these lines
>
> Mar 17 13:35:52 borg2 postfix/smtp[24339]: fatal: specify a password table
via
> the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter
Hmm, I'd say that postfix has nothing to do with it. If you want to have 
postfix authentificate from the same Database as Dovecot, you need it, but 
otherwise I do not see no relation. Or do you installed some script, that 
checks mails for Groupware-related ones and act upon them immediately?

I cannot help you with Postfix.

For shared resources you'll need yet another, shared account or look into 
the ACL plugin. KOrganizer even supports imap URLs natively, I saw right 
now.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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