Kolab Now: Disabled IMAP Proxy

Since last weekend’s upgrade of Kolab Now to Kolab 16, some customers have reported IMAP connection and folder synchronization issues. I have therefore elected to bypass the IMAP proxy used to filter groupware folders, basically returning all IMAP client connections to the same behaviour and connection end-points you were accustomed to before. While our tests…

Re: Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Dear Melissa Perri, I’ve read your article entitled “Product Manager vs. Product Owner” with interest,  and I recommend my readers also browse Melissa’s blog for other interesting articles. However, I would like to take this opportunity to respectfully disagree with some of your article’s implied rhetoric to be entertained and conclusions, and challenge others. In my…

Upgrade of Kolab Now to Kolab 16

This weekend, from Sunday 00:00 UTC to Sunday 04:00 UTC, users and customers of Kolab Now may experience intermittent availability of various services. While our data center’s network provider will perform standard network maintenance, so will our staff upgrade our software and databases, and reconfigure infrastructure to get you to the next generation of collaboration…

Kolab Now MX Migration Sorted

When I switched over mail infrastructure earlier this week, I might have been under a few mistaken impressions — in hindsight, one might qualify at least some of them as embarrassing. Firstly, MX records never work the way you suspect — in part because you expect them to work as specified. Forget that. In a…

Purposefully Not the Center of Attention

While it’s been argued before, over and over again, that the concepts behind a crypto-currency like BitCoin or Ethereum or Ripple or LiteCoin might mean the upheaval of the traditional economy, it’s also been argued that it is actually the underlying blockchain technology that implies the change of pace. I disagree. One can arguably not…

Dear Lazyweb: No video for VLC on Fedora 26?

Dear Lazyweb, even though Fedora 26 is not yet released, I’ve upgraded — now, VideoLAN isn’t displaying video any longer. If I start it with —no–embedded–video I do get video, but it doesn’t seem to be able to run or switch to/from fullscreen. Resetting my preferences has not helped so far. I would appreciate to…

Kolab 16 Available for Ubuntu Xenial: Testing

I wrote before about a lack of support for PHP 7 in an essential utility used to generate language-specific bindings to our libraries, called SWIG. Well, on December 29th 2016, SWIG released a version that does support PHP 7. In the past few days, I’ve spent some time in patching both libkolabxml and libkolab packages…

Phabricator Packages for EPEL, Fedora

Using Pagure and COPR, Tim Flink and I have settled on using common infrastructure to further the inclusion of Phabricator in to the Fedora repositories (and EPEL). I’m hoping this will bear fruit and get more people on board. Our Pagure repository is at Phab Phour Phedora — a mix of Fabuluous Four, Phabricator for…

Kolab 16.1 for Jessie: Way Ahead of Schedule

I reported before that I was a little ahead of schedule in making Kolab 16.1 available for Debian Jessie, and as it turns out I was wrong — I’m way ahead. In fact, installing and configuring Kolab 16.1 on Jessie passes without any major head-aches. I think the one little tidbit I have left relates…

Kolab 16.1 for Jessie: Ahead of Schedule

I told you earlier this week I would be working on providing Debian packages for Kolab 16 next week, but an appointment I had this week was cancelled, and I get to get started just ever so slightly earlier than expected. This lengthens the window of time I have to deal with all the necessities,…