Auto mount addressbook for all existing users and new users

[anandi]

Hi,

I see that using zmmailbox, one can auto mount an addressbook for all existing users and also new users which will be created at a later date. However trying all combinations and searching the zimbra forums, i couldn't get it to work. Any help on this will be appreciated.

[Trantor]

Hello anandi.

AFAIK there is no automount available for any Zimbra folder, contacts included. You can share a folder controlling with varying degrees of granularity who is allowed to access it. You can share something with an account, a group, a cos, a domain, with all authenticated users on the server, or you can make it public.
Version 7 of ZCS allows to advertise the fact that folders are shared to the users, however that has been removed since version 8.0 .
From the help of zmmailbox:

modifyFolderGrant(mfg)       {folder-path} {account {name}|group {name}|cos {name}|domain {name}|all|public|guest {email} [{password}]|key {email} [{accesskey}] {permissions|none}}

For instance, should you wish to give complete access to the default Contacts folder to any authenticated user, you might input, operating as the zimbra user:

zmmailbox -z -m account@domain.com mfg /Contacts all rwxid

This topic on the Zimbra forums provides additional information, as does the /opt/zimbra/docs/soap.txt documentation file on any ZCS installation.

Regards,
Trantor

[anandi]

Hi Trantor,

Thanks for the reply. Let me try this out and i might trouble you more

Hello anandi.

AFAIK there is no automount available for any Zimbra folder, contacts included. You can share a folder controlling with varying degrees of granularity who is allowed to access it. You can share something with an account, a group, a cos, a domain, with all authenticated users on the server, or you can make it public.
Version 7 of ZCS allows to advertise the fact that folders are shared to the users, however that has been removed since version 8.0 .
From the help of zmmailbox:

modifyFolderGrant(mfg)       {folder-path} {account {name}|group {name}|cos {name}|domain {name}|all|public|guest {email} [{password}]|key {email} [{accesskey}] {permissions|none}}

For instance, should you wish to give complete access to the default Contacts folder to any authenticated user, you might input, operating as the zimbra user:

zmmailbox -z -m account@domain.com mfg /Contacts all rwxid

This topic on the Zimbra forums provides additional information, as does the /opt/zimbra/docs/soap.txt documentation file on any ZCS installation.

Regards,
Trantor

[anandi]

Hi,

As per Zmmailbox - Zimbra :: Wiki, it shows that a folder can be mounted for a user, using createMountPoint command. Any ideas on how that is done for contacts ?

Thanks

[Cine]

Hi,

As per Zmmailbox - Zimbra :: Wiki, it shows that a folder can be mounted for a user, using createMountPoint command. Any ideas on how that is done for contacts ?

Thanks

Hello Anandi!

Addres Books are folders, just like email folders, calendars and briefcases, so the "createMountpoint" command works on that one too...

Have a nice day,
Cine
the ZeXtras Team

[anandi]

Hi Cine,

I tried to use the examples on the wiki, but wasn't successful. Do you have any working example ?

[anandi]

Tried again, and got it working.

Quote from wiki:

zmmailbox -z -m share@domain.com mfg / account user@domain.com rwixd
zmmailbox -z -m user@domain.com cm /shared share@domain.com /

Modified version, which worked for me:

zmmailbox -z -m shared-address-book@domain.com mfg "/Contacts/Users Internal List" account user@domain.com r
zmmailbox -z -m user@domain.com cm "/Contacts/Users Internal List" shared-address-book@domain.com "/Contacts/Users Internal List"

The first enabled the read only sharing, and the second mounts it automatically for the user.

Hope this helps someone else

[Cine]

Tried again, and got it working.
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Hope this helps someone else

Hello Anandi!

Just to clarify: both the "mfg" and "cm" commands require 3 parameters:

zmmailbox -z -m share@domain.com mfg {folder-to-share} {target} {permissions}
zmmailbox -z -m user@domain.com cm {mountpoint-name} {owner} {original-name}

In the first command you quoted the "target" parameter was "/" thus sharing the whole content of a mailbox, while in the second the target was a single folder.

Have a nice day,
Cine
the ZeXtras Team

mfd

[drueppela]

Hi all. Do you see a chance to solve https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77872 by mounting one addressbook for multiple users?

[Cine]

Hi all. Do you see a chance to solve https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77872 by mounting one addressbook for multiple users?

Hello drueppela,
welcome to the forums!

As written in the bug report you linked:

I know that it is possible to mutual share addressbooks but this is
not what i need.

"Mounting" a folder is the step needeed in order to make a shared folder visible to a user, so it's still part of the sharing process.

The /Contacts folder is the default Address Book for a Zimbra user, and this cannot currently be changed.


Have a nice day,
Cine
the ZeXtras Team