Horde

Some IMP installations have been targeted by brute-force or phishing attacks; compromised accounts are then used to send spam. Horde 3.2 and IMP 4.2 have some new features for limiting the damage of a compromised account or a rogue user.

My publisher started with his next endeavor in bringing knowledge to the masses: The OpenSourceSchool. This time it is about spoken words - or courses - rather than written pages bound as books. Many OpenSourcePress authors are offering seminars ... [More] there. I would definitely have liked to offer a course about Gentoo there. But I had to agree with them that this would probably not raise enough interest from paying customers. Or am I wrong about that? But of course there was room for the second topic dear to my heart: Kolab. The course will take five days and touch all major topics of the Kolab Server. Central components such as postfix, openldap, cyrus imap will provide the core components but I'll certainly also include a chapter about getting the Horde web client successfully installed. So we will hopefully have a new batch of Kolab experts in October. And hopefully the preparations for the course will also help in laying the groundwork for a book about Kolab. This is the only book I still want to write after going through the pain of writing the Gentoo book. [Less]

I'm back to Horde bug fixes and while their CVS server vanished in some kind of limbo I took the time to create a Horde/Kolab project page. Maybe it is a useful overview to the people interested in Horde. I definitely have to update the Kolab wiki, too. But that might still take a while.

Using Wietse Venema's taint mode modification to PHP to audit Horde

Horde and all of it's applications have a powerful API through which a developer can obtain Horde content. In this first part of a series, we'll look at the basics of what is required to interact with Horde via the API.

Horde 3.2 includes improved support for spreading Horde apps across multiple subdomains. Want to know how to set up a single Horde install to serve, for example, bugs.horde.org, wiki.horde.org, cvs.horde.org, and dev.horde.org?

SyncML support for the Kolab server has been requested for several years now. Supporting it via the modules available within Horde always seemed to be one the of easiest ways to get mobile clients to synchronize with the server. Since the newest ... [More] Kolab server release candidates now provide Horde, how far is SyncML support away? Not far at all... Univention contracted p@rdus via the Kolab Konsortium to implement SyncML support within the Kolab server. Initially a version that would require an additional MySQL database was planned but p@rdus invested some additional time into generating purely IMAP based drivers so that SyncML support will also be available within the next Kolab release (the Kolab server does not use MySQL at all by default). Today I was able to sync the Blackberry provided by the customer for the first time. Contacts, events, tasks all survived my minimal testing. Of course the same procedure failed once I gave the customer access to the test server... So right now I'm entering the debugging phase and I'm starting to prepare some scripts so that people eager to try the SyncML support can install an experimental Horde version on an external web server. [Less]

SyncML support for the Kolab server has been requested for several years now. Supporting it via the modules available within Horde always seemed to be one the of easiest ways to get mobile clients to synchronize with the server. Since the newest ... [More] Kolab server release candidates now provide Horde, how far is SyncML support away? Not far at all... Univention contracted p@rdus via the Kolab Konsortium to implement SyncML support within the Kolab server. Initially a version that would require an additional MySQL database was planned but p@rdus invested some additional time into generating purely IMAP based drivers so that SyncML support will also be available within the next Kolab release (the Kolab server does not use MySQL at all by default). Today I was able to sync the Blackberry provided by the customer for the first time. Contacts, events, tasks all survived my minimal testing. Of course the same procedure failed once I gave the customer access to the test server... So right now I'm entering the debugging phase and I'm starting to prepare some scripts so that people eager to try the SyncML support can install an experimental Horde version on an external web server. Update: A script for installing horde from CVS is now available. It also installs all the required Kolab patches for SyncML support. You can fetch and run it like this: wget http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/*checkout*/server/horde/external-horde-cvs.sh chmod u x external-horde-cvs.sh ./external-horde-cvs.sh [Less]

The second Horde advisory board meeting discussed Horde 3.2, Google Summer of Code, and Planet Horde

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