About the Virtual Appliance
This virtual appliance/machine includes a full installation of the popular email collaboration software Open-Xchange. In addition to Open-Xchange, we’ve also installed Dovecot, as Open-Xchange is not bundled with any IMAP/POP3 server. We’ve also installed Joe (a simple text editor) and VMware Tools.
The appliance was installed using Open-Xchange official guideline.
We strongly discourage you against using this appliance in production. It is intended to be a simple turn-key solution for users and administrators who want to take a closer look at Open-Xchange without having to spend time on configuring it.
The virtual appliance was created with VMware Server 2, but should work in most recent VMware applications, such as VMware Fusion, VMware Player and VMware Workstation.
About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is a collaboration platform available both as a community edition and as a commercial edition. This Appliance is based on the community edition.
For more information about Open-Xchange, please visit Open-Xchange’s website.
Default Configuration
By default, this appliance is configured with the following network static settings:
- IP-Address: 192.168.10.228
- Subnet: 255.255.255.0
- DNS: 192.168.10.1
- Gateway: 192.168.10.1
Usage
To log into the web-interface, simply point your browser to:
http://192.168.10.228/
Open-Xchange Credentials
We have created three users: an admin master, a context master and a regular user.
Admin Master
User: oxadminmaster
Password: admin_master_password
Context Admin
User: oxadmin
Password: oxpassword
Regular User
User: oxuser
Password: oxpassword
System Credentials
There is only one system user created on the system, namely ‘root.’
The system-user is:
User: root
Password: oxpassword1
MySQL:
Database: openexchange
User: openexchange
Password: db_password
Modifying Network Settings
Updating the network settings is easy.
Just run:
$ system-config-network
Modify the network settings according to your needs.
Adding a user
Since the Dovecot is not integrated with Open-Xchange, we need to create two users: one for Dovecot and one for Open-Xchange. This is how you do it. Replace ‘new-user’ with your user.
Create a local user (required for Dovecot):
$ adduser -m -s /bin/false new-user
$ passwd new-user
Create the Open-Xchange user:
$ /opt/open-xchange/sbin/createuser -c 1 -A oxadmin -P oxpassword -u new-user -d "Test User" -g Test -s User -p oxpassword -e testuser@example.com --imaplogin new-user --imapserver 127.0.0.1 --smtpserver 127.0.0.1
Disclaimer
Email Service Guide (ESG) is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use of this virtual appliance.
Open-Xchange is a registered trademark of Open-Xchange Inc.. ESG is not affiliated with Scalix or Xandros Corporation.
Download
Version 0.1
Based on CentOS 5.4 with Open-Xchange 6.14.0 Rev6 (Community Edition).
Size: 515MB
MD5: db46dc0afdaa4326808e592152dded84
- HTTP
- Bittorrent (preferred)
- MD5
Feedback
If you got any feedback or questions regarding this virtual appliance, please use this forum.
