SMTP server setup on Synology [DSM 5.2]

The setup is straightforward, but there are a few pitfalls.

  • Hostname(FQDN).
    This Full Qualified Domain Name is the full name of the server as <$hostname.$domainname>. When  you login to the SMTP server, the server will identify itself with this name

    220 <$hostname.$domainname> ESMTP Postfix

    This name could be the name as defined in the MX DNS record for your domain. But this is not a requirement.
    If your domain is high on the SPAM blacklist, add the name you would get with a reverse DNS lookup. These are not necessarily the same.

  • Additional domain.
    Add all domains that your server is defined as mail server according to the MX DNS records. This is at least 1 domain.
  • SMTP relay
    Fill in the SMTP server of your ISP. Note that SSL connection is not supported, only TLS or not-encrypted. Port could be 25, or 587, depending on your ISP.  (do NOT use port 465 since that is explicitly used for SSL)

 

Synology HTTP deamon and other Synology services [DSM 5.2]

The configuration files for the HTTP deamon can be found in:
/etc/httpd/conf

Several configuration files are recreated when you restart the HTTP service, so pay attention to which files are going to be edited.

The ‘source’ for the httpd.conf is httpd.conf-user in /usr/syno/apache/conf. But it might be cleaner to edir one of the included config files inside the /etc/httpd/conf/extra directory

The HTTP deamon can be restarted with:

/usr/syno/sbin/synoservicecfg --restart httpd-user
 /usr/syno/sbin/synoservicecfg --restart httpd-sys

There are more services that can be restarted with the same tool. For a complete list, look at

/usr/syno/sbin/synoservicecfg --list

 

 

Zarafa Z-push install on Synology

There is a Synology package available that helps for easy installation, but it is based on an old version of Z-push.  Better start a clean installation with the latest version. The installation notes can be found here:

https://z-push.org/svn/z-push/trunk/src/INSTALL

Download the latest version from http://z-push.org/download/ and install it in /usr/share/z-push.

Log files can go to /var/log/z-push and settings can go to /var/lib/z-push.

Make sure all directories have owner http:http and correct writing permissions. Also add these directories to the open_basedir variable of PHP, which you can find in:
Control panel -> web services -> PHP settings

Modifications to config.php are minimal. Add the time-zone and if any of the default directories was changed, modify it here.

z-push-admin.php and z-push-top.php are executables and help you with the administration of Z-push. Run them without options to see if your installation is correct.

We need to define a redirection alias for the Z-push directory. This can be done in /etc/httpd/conf/extra/rhttpd-ssl.conf-user. Add the following line inside the :443 directive.

Alias /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync /usr/share/z-push/index.php

This way, the directive is only valid on the SSL secured http connection, and not in the normal one.
Restart the server to see the effects.

Synology: Zarafa database backup and restore (migrate)

The backup can be done while the sever is running. For restoring, the server must be stopped first.

Backup with mysqldunp:

mysqldump -u root -p <password> -h localhost --skip-lock-tables --single-transaction --databases zarafa > zarafa.dump.sql

Restore with mysql

mysql -u root -p <password> zarafa < zarafa.dump.sql

Sometimes the dump was created with chunks bigger then the server accepts:
ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 6734: Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes

Then open a terminal with mysql -u root

and enter the following

mysql -u root
set global net_buffer_length=1000000; 
set global max_allowed_packet=1000000000;

Leave the terminal open, and use the following in a new terminal:

mysql -u root -p <password> --max_allowed_packet=100M zarafa < zarafa.dump.sql

Don’t forget the attachments, since they are saved separately. Backup with:

tar -zcvf zarafa_attachment.tar.gz /var/lib/zarafa/

And restore the attachments with:

tar -zxvf zarafa_attachement.tar.gz
rm -rf /var/lib/zarafa/*
mv var/lib/zarafa/* /var/lib/zarafa
chown -R zarafa:zarafa /var/lib/zarafa