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Install EGroupware Mail with Active Directory (ADS)

Following steps are only necessary if you use users, groups and memberships from ADS, not if you just authenticate with it
Configure ADS authentication for EGroupware Mail / Dovecot, which is configured for our SQL database by default:

Change a new installed (empty!) EGroupware to use Active Directory

Install EGroupware Mail with Active Directory (ADS)

This tutorial assumes you have a working EGroupware installation which either just authenticates with ActiveDirectory or also uses ADS for storing users, groups and memberships (follow this to create a new EGroupware instance using ActiveDirectory)

The stock EGroupware Mail server uses EGroupware's MariaDB or MySQL database for authentication and storing mail-attributes.

Install egroupware-mail Linux package, but do NOT configure it any further yet
If you're EGroupware version is just 21.1.20220408 you need to install the following patch (not necessary/working for newer versions!):

for patch in 68f7437cd04ed9a74aaa4c59520af428bc30a1c1 1a0dd6214e7836451e495ece37885f9e6dc8a8a6 22c42a8caff9a967f261c81a2efa3b5a881876da b813f403a7d140c9e8b64d88f55bd50d03273bde
do
    curl https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/commit/$patch.patch | docker exec -i egroupware patch -p1 -d /usr/share/egroupware-sources
done
docker restart egroupware

Create in ADS a user with name dovecot with a password, to be used as Dovecot master-user

Following steps are only necessary if you use users, groups and memberships from ADS, not if you just authenticate with it

Login into Setup (https://example.org/egroupware/setup/) using admin and PW from /var/lib/egroupware/egroupware-docker-install.log
Go to [Edit current configuration] and change in Periodic import from ADS or LDAP into EGroupware database: What to import? to users, groups and memberships and [Save]
Go to [Edit current configuration] and click on [Inital import] to import all existing ADS users and groups. If everything went successfully, you should see at the end the following message:

Setting new incremental import time to: 20XX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX UTC (XXXXXXXXXX)

Created XX, updated 0 and deleted 0 accounts, with 0 errors.

Close the window/tab and configure under How frequent should the import run? the periodic import, eg. set 2 hours and [Save]

Configure ADS authentication for EGroupware Mail / Dovecot, which is configured for our SQL database by default:

go to /etc/egroupware-mail/dovecot which contains the Dovecot configuration
make the changes commented with EGroupware authentication with LDAP/ADS

root@ubuntu:/etc/egroupware-mail/dovecot# vi $(grep -rl 'EGroupware authentication with LDAP/ADS')

conf.d/auth-master.conf.ext:
# Dovecot master uses "dovecot" user and it's password
passdb {
  # EGroupware authentication with LDAP/ADS: change to driver = ldap and comment sql-master and uncomment ldap-master
  driver = ldap
  #args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-master.conf.ext
  master = yes
  result_success = continue
}

conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext:
# EGroupware authentication with LDAP/ADS: comment the full block
#passdb {
#  driver = sql
#
#  # Path for SQL configuration file, see example-config/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
#  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
#}
  
# "prefetch" user database means that the passdb already provided the
# needed information and there's no need to do a separate userdb lookup.
# <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.Prefetch.txt>
# EGroupware authentication with LDAP/ADS: comment the full block
#userdb {
#  driver = prefetch
#}
conf.d/10-auth.conf:
#!include auth-system.conf.ext
!include auth-sql.conf.ext
# EGroupware authentication with LDAP/ADS: uncomment auth-ldap (leave auth-sql needed for userdb!)
!include auth-ldap.conf.ext
#!include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
#!include auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
#!include auth-vpopmail.conf.ext
#!include auth-static.conf.ext

Then you need to configure your Active Directory domain-controller:

root@ubuntu:/etc/egroupware-mail/dovecot# vi dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
# LDAP URIs to use. You can use this instead of hosts list. Note that this
# setting isn't supported by all LDAP libraries.
uris = ldaps://<domain-controler>:636

# Distinguished Name - the username used to login to the LDAP server.
# Leave it commented out to bind anonymously (useful with auth_bind=yes).
dn = CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=<my-domain>,DC=...

# Password for LDAP server, if dn is specified.
dnpass = <password-of-user-specified-above>

# Use TLS to connect to the LDAP server.
#tls = no
# TLS options, currently supported only with OpenLDAP:
#tls_ca_cert_file =
#tls_ca_cert_dir =
#tls_cipher_suite =
# TLS cert/key is used only if LDAP server requires a client certificate.
#tls_cert_file =
#tls_key_file =
# Valid values: never, hard, demand, allow, try
tls_require_cert = never

# LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3.
ldap_version = 3

# LDAP base. %variables can be used here.
# For example: dc=mail, dc=example, dc=org
base = CN=Users,DC=<my-domain>,DC=...

# Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used (see
# https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/config_variables/
# for full list):
#   %u - username
#   %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain
#   %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain
#pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))
# ActiveDirectory
pass_filter = (&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=%u))

root@ubuntu:/etc/egroupware-mail/dovecot# vi dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
# EGroupware master configuration
# includes ldap configuration and overwrites user_filter to only allow uid=dovecot

!include dovecot-ldap.conf.ext

# LDAP
#pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)(uid=dovecot))
# ActiveDirectory
pass_filter = (&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=%u)(sAMAccountName=dovecot))

Reload Dovecot with:

alias doveadm='docker exec -it egroupware-mail doveadm'
doveadm reload

Test the authentication using doveadm:

doveadm auth test <user>
Password: <password-of-user>
passdb: <user> auth succeeded
extra fields:
  user=<user>

If the authentication does not work, check doveadm log errors to see why
Test authentication with Dovecot master user dovecot

doveadm auth test dovecot <master-password>
passdb: dovecot auth succeeded
extra fields:
  user=dovecot

doveadm auth test -M dovecot <user> NszrbCQWdhMqg4QQ
passdb: <user> auth succeeded
extra fields:
  user=<user>
  original_user=dovecot
  auth_user=dovecot

log into EGroupware using the admin user you created above
go to Administration and right click on the user himself and in the menu on Mailaccount
Change in IMAP tab under IMAP administration:

Admin user: dovecot
Password:   <password-you-used-for-creating-user-dovecot>

Go to Aliases+Forwards tab anc check Email account active
Store the mail account
Go to Mail app and verify you can access the mailbox of the user
Log out and in again, to let EGroupware recognize the working mail account for all users
go to account list, mark all user-rows with valid email addresses, right click on them and choose from the menu (de)activate mail accounts > activate
continue with further EGroupware Mail configurations as outlined in our Wiki

Change a new installed (empty!) EGroupware to use Active Directory

This tutorial assumes you just installed egroupware-docker to get an empty EGroupware installation, as it will delete all data!
If you want to use EGroupware EPL, install it after switching to Active Directory, as this will remove all application run-rights
Login into Setup (https://example.org/egroupware/setup/) using admin and PW from /var/lib/egroupware/egroupware-docker-install.log
Go to [Edit current configuration] and change:
- In Authentication/Accounts: type of auth and where to store accounts to Active Directory
- In If using ADS (Active Directory): fill out at least the first 4 fields (use the Administrator or another Domain Admin for now, as we need to create the required EGroupware groups "Admins", "Default", "NoGroup", "Teachers" and the user "anonymous"!)
- [Save] the configuration
if you see an error message in the "Setup main menu" or a red cross in front of [Create admin account], you need to fix your ADS configuration, before you can continue
Go to [Create admin account] and:
- check "Delete all existing SQL accounts, groups, ..."
- enter the details of an existing ADS account which is a member of "Domain Admin" group, who should become your first EGroupware Admins account using *unchanged* as password
- do NOT check the last two checkboxes
log out of Setup, click on "Back to user login" and log in with the ADS account and it's real password
now you can add all other EGroupware users to the newly created "Default" group, which is the EGroupware all users groups, please do NOT remove or rename it
further EGroupware Admins can be added to EGroupware's "Admins" group