History: Zarafa

Zarafa is an open-source, full-featured mail storage and groupware solution. Zarafa includes a web-based interface for performing mail, address book and calendar functions. It is a component of Tiki Suite.

Uses PHP / MySQL, like Tiki

Zarafa has a lot of features, and via the ClearOS integration, makes for full-featured self-hosted email solution.

Related links

• http://www.zarafa.com/
• Zarafa Manual
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/zarafa
• http://www.zarafa.com/codechallenge2013/
• Test ActiveSync: https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/
• https://suite.tiki.org/Tiki+Suite+Install#Zarafa
• http://www.clearcenter.com/support/documentation/user_guide/zarafa_community_for_clearos
  • Spam / virus filter
  • Auto-responders
    • Zarafa webapp -> Settings -> Out of office (AutoReply only once per day to each sender with the following text:)
  • Alternate reply-to
    • Zarafa webapp -> Settings -> Send as "Due to security reasons the send as permission is only configurable by the administrator" (but how?)
  • Domain alias (example.org & example.com)
    • Rules
      • For different handling based on domain name (filter has a sent to field, so presumably this works)
      • To handle recurring mail (ex.: known spammer, automated warnings, etc.). Ex.: move to shared folder

Questions

• if a user has more than one account powered by Zarafa
  • Is it possible to overlay calendars between two Zarafa instances? Like remote calendar idea
  • Is it possible for the webmail to access address book of another webmail account?
• How to make system wide changes?
  • Settings -> Mail -> Compose mail in this format -> Plain Text (instead of HTML)
  • Settings -> Calendar -> First day of the week: Sunday
• Turn off notes & tasks for times when this will be done in Tiki. We want to avoid duplication of data.
• How to configure Zarafa settings that are part of Z-Admin but not in https://example.org:81/app/zarafa_community ?
• How to configure Zarafa's ActiveSync to have different remote control settings. (ex.: not full control of device but only remote wipe of Zarafa data)
  • http://www.zarafa.com/wiki/index.php/Mobile_Device_Management_%28MDM%29
• What features would ClearOS or Zarafa or Tiki need to add so we can have Forum and Mailing List Synchronization without having to install MailMan?
  • Everything would be web-based and handled in Tiki-Clearos-Zarafa. Here is live use: http://tiki.org/forum26
• Is there a moderation feature in Zarafa? (mail needs manual approval before going to one or many). Ideally, we could put in a folder and it gets sent to all (or something like this). If a message is suspected of being spam, it could be manually approved by someone before being sent to all.

Todo

• Check if latest versions have an improved server-side filter interface: It would be nice to propose a filter based on a message. This is really useful for mailing lists. If it doesn't exist, log a feature request and add a link below

Wishlist for Zarafa in the context of Tiki suite

• Move to Bootstrap: https://forums.zarafa.com/showthread.php?10317-Proposal-to-migrate-to-the-Bootstrap-front-end-framework-in-a-future-version
• https://forums.zarafa.com/showthread.php?9746-Git-Github-repository-and-Ohloh-net-stats
• Zarafa has a nifty shared folder feature, but could use a little UI tweak: http://tracker.clearfoundation.com/view.php?id=1832

Wishlist for Zarafa-ClearOS integration

• Blocker: Mail redirect to external domain
• DMARC / DKIM / PTR / SPF: Features / status report tool / documentation to reduce odds of outgoing mail being flagged as spam
• Force https use for all data & related security enhancements
• It should be possible to view/set webmail URL and deactivate legacy interface
• Zarafa should report if ports should be opened on the firewall
• A way to run Tiki with PHP 5.5 on the same instance as Zarafa (without breaking Zarafa)
  • http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/howtos/upgrading_to_php_5.5.x
  • https://forums.zarafa.com/showthread.php?10683-Is-it-possible-to-run-Zarafa-without-the-PHP-mapi-extension
  • Add native support for Software Collections (SCL) in ClearOS 7.x, for better security & innovation
• ClearOS-Prosody-Zarafa