Horde HowTo Documentation

Installation

These links are collected from various community resources and may be out of date! Please see the official installation documentation.

• Debian
  • Installing Horde on Debian
  • Installing Horde Groupware Webmail edition on Debian Etch
  • Installing Horde Groupware Webmail edition on Debian Lenny
  • Installing Horde and applications on Debian Jessie with PEAR.
• Fedora/!RedHat/CentOS
  • Installing Horde Groupware Webmail Edition on CentOS 7
  • Installing Horde on Fedora Core 4
  • Installing Horde on CentOS 4
  • Installing Horde Groupware Webmail Edition on CentOS 5
  • Upgrading Horde CentOS 5.2
  • Installing PEAR modules necessary on RHEL 3
• IIS
  • Installing a Webmail System Based on Horde on IIS
  • Installing Horde CVS on an IIS6 Windows Server 2003
• Migrating identity information from IMP 2 or other external sources
• Installing/Updating PEAR packages in Horde Groupware (Webmail Edition) 1.x
• How to uninstall all PEAR packages from Horde's PEAR channel
• (almost) complete collaborative mailsystem howto with postfix, postfixadmin, dovecot, horde, clamav, rspamd, rmilter, SPF, DKIM, DMARC

Administration/Configuration

Authentication

• Setting up a composite authentication driver
• Allowing guest access to applications without authentication
• Dynamically selecting an IMAP server for authentication
• Setting up the Shibboleth authentication driver
• Setting up the CAS authentication driver
• Setting up the SQL authentication driver with Dovecot
• Using X509 user certificates for authentication
• Automatic authentication with Cpanel accounts

General

• Setting up application specific permissions
• Migrate existing horde groups from sql to ldap
• Tips for higher security
• Enabling display of Microsoft Word document graphics with wvHtml
• Using Horde with an existing LDAP directory
• Using Horde with a new LDAP directory
• Using LDAP to store Horde/IMP Preferences
• Restricting Access by OpenLDAP Groups
• Preferences from one default user to all other users
• Getting mime_magic, and fileinfo working on RHEL and Fedora Core 4
• Script for creating database(postgres)
• Removing user data
• Script for cleaning memcache lock files (Horde versions < 3.2)
• How to create/edit .local.php configuration files
• Configuring Horde 4 for Twitter integration
• Configuring Horde 4 for Facebook integration

Setting up Horde_Blocks

• Setting up METAR weather to actually return data

Ansel http://www.horde.org/ansel/

• An example site for embedding Ansel (and other) content.
• An article explaining how to embed images on other sites.

DIMP http://www.horde.org/dimp/

• How to hide one of the duplicate menus

Gollem http://www.horde.org/gollem/

• Gollem config for automatic site-jail for FTP

Hermes http://www.horde.org/hermes/

• Create a separate address book for use by Hermes

IMP http://www.horde.org/imp/

• Quota hack for mail servers not supporting quota
• Configuring IMP for use with Cyrus IMAP
• Tips on configuring UW-IMAP namespaces for use with IMP 4.1+
• Documentation on the 'imap_server' configuration parameter in IMP 4.1+'s servers.php file
• Hierarchical folder structure with Cyrus IMAP
• Creating Default Folders Upon First Login
• Linking directly to an email message
• Alternative quota command for Horde 3, IMP 4
• Alternative quota command for Horde 4, IMP 5
• Alternative quota command for Horde 5, IMP 6
• Alternative Imap driver quota for Horde 5, IMP 6
• Display username beside the name of the opened folder for Horde 4, IMP 5 See "Customization" below for how to do this in Horde 5
• Using realms for Horde 4, IMP 5
• Display sent-mailboxes in the lower tree instead of displaying as special folders on top of the left panel

Ingo http://www.horde.org/ingo/

• Two or more backends in Ingo
• Ingo SSH2 configuration
• Vacations and Forwards
• Dovecot Sieve with Ingo
• Default filter rules for dovecot with Ingo

Kronolith http://www.horde.org/kronolith/

• Setting up reminders for Kronolith events
• Setting Kronolith up as a read-write calendar server for Sunbird/Thunderbird (see also ExternalClientsHowTo)
• Setting Kronolith up as a read-write calendar server for Apple iCal

MIMP http://www.horde.org/mimp/

• Setting up MIMP in parallel with IMP

Turba http://www.horde.org/turba/

• Using multiple tables for a single address book
• Configuring Turba to use the same fields as Outlook 2003
• Using custom field types in Turba
• Importing external address book data (IMP 2)
• Storing Extra Email Addresses in Turba with SQL Backend

Sork http://www.horde.org/sork

• How to configure vacation module with LDAP and Gnarwl
• How to configure vacation module with Vpopmail and Autorespond

Customization

• Getting Full Name and Email Address from LDAP using Hooks in Horde 5
• Let local users access a remote IMAP server with different usernames and passwords in Horde 5
• User examples of default preferences per module
• Customizing menus
• Replacing APIs with own solutions
• Integrating the WysiwygPro editor
• Customization section in the administrator documentation
• Display user id beside date - Horde 5
• Patch to include message headers in the body when forwarding with "Edit as New"

Advanced Features

• Using external groupware clients with Horde
  • Syncing a PDA/Outlook with Horde
  • Use applications that expect PHPGroupWare's XML-RPC methods with Horde
  • Installing Horde on a Kolab server
• Using the SOAP/WSDL interface to access the Horde/Module API
• Article explaining how to use Horde's API to power external website content.
• Using the XML/RPC interface to access the Horde/Module API with Python
• Rename users in the Horde DB
• Clean up script after deleting users
• Rename or remove the realm for the entire Horde DB
• Use PHP to screen scrape public Kronolith calendars

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting the TurckMMCache PHP bytecode cache
• Tips on why IMP isn't showing a particular message and why we can't do anything about it
• Pointers on how to help track down runaway Apache processes
• Converting serialized data from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Education

• Creating your first Horde module
• Populating your first Horde module with functionality
• Updating your database schema

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