1 imip-agent
2 ==========
3
4 This software implements an agent that can interpret e-mail messages
5 containing calendar information, maintain availability records for scheduling
6 participants, act on behalf of resources and other entities that need to
7 participate in scheduling, and support user interfaces for end-users whose
8 e-mail programs do not understand calendar data.
9
10 Getting Started
11 ===============
12
13 Eventually, this information should be incorporated into packages for various
14 operating system distributions, and these instructions should be largely
15 superfluous for most users.
16
17 System User and Filesystem Access
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19
20 A system user needs to be created and to belong to certain groups in order to
21 deliver messages to mail stores and to publish resources on the Web:
22
23 useradd -d /var/lib/imip-agent -m -U -G lmtp,www-data -r imip-agent
24
25 If the lmtp group does not exist, it should be created and be employed for
26 LMTP delivery to systems like Cyrus and Dovecot.
27
28 Store details and published resources need to be accessible by the imip-agent
29 and www-data users:
30
31 mkdir /var/lib/imip-agent/store /var/www/imip-agent/static
32 chown imip-agent /var/lib/imip-agent/store /var/www/imip-agent/static
33 chgrp www-data /var/lib/imip-agent/store /var/www/imip-agent/static
34 chmod g+s /var/lib/imip-agent/store /var/www/imip-agent/static
35
36 Here, the setgid flag should ensure that new files and directories have the
37 appropriate group associated with them.
38
39 Fixing ownership can be done as follows:
40
41 chown -R imip-agent /var/lib/imip-agent
42 chgrp -R imip-agent /var/lib/imip-agent
43 chown -R imip-agent /var/lib/imip-agent/store /var/www/imip-agent/static
44 chgrp -R www-data /var/lib/imip-agent/store /var/www/imip-agent/static
45 chmod -R g+w /var/lib/imip-agent/store /var/www/imip-agent/static
46
47 Installing the Software
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49
50 The tools/install.sh script should install the software in appropriate
51 locations.
52
53 Configuring Other Software
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55
56 The conf directory contains subdirectories for different systems:
57
58 apache Apache 2 site configuration for publishing resources
59 exim Exim 4 routing and transport configuration
60 postfix Postfix routing and transport configuration
61
62 Either Exim or Postfix can be chosen as a mail system supporting the agent.
63 Both of these currently make use of LDAP to access user information.
