Re: Anyone doing IM on a multi-server install?

[Adam Cody <ajcody@zimbra.com>]

Multi-server/proxy issues are worked out in some cases and are still being worked out. I've been trying to track the IM stuff on my personal wiki page here.

http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Ajcody-Instant-Messaging-Topics

Easiest way to where we are at on it is to adv. search bugzilla and just select the IM components.

http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&component=IM+-+Server&component=IM+-+Web+Client&long_desc_type=anywordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&testcase=&support=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

Don't see anything referencing ngnix, but rather the "cloud" and third party proxies.

Sorry I'm not of much help on this. I'll see if I can dig into more though, when time allows.

Adam 

----- "Steve Hillman" <hillman@sfu.ca> wrote:

> We'd like to be able to move our Jabber service over to Zimbra at some
> point, but our multi-server install would seem to be an impediment. 
> Unless I'm missing something, the front-end proxy for Zimbra (nginx)
> is not XMPP-aware, so it's incapable of being able to route XMPP
> packets to the appropriate back-end mailbox server, the way it can for
> POP, IMAP, and now HTTP.  As such, if a user wants to use a Jabber
> desktop client, they'd need to know what mailbox server they're on.
> More importantly, as near as I can tell, this would completely prevent
> external Jabber servers from being able to send messages to our users
> - our users' Jabber ID would be <user@sfu.ca>, but the XMPP path to
> them would be <user@mailbox(n).sfu.ca>
> 
> Has anyone figured out a way around this? Is anyone at Zimbra working
> on an XMPP proxy? Obviously someone's figured this out - GTalk is
> XMPP-based (or at least XMPP compatible) and they can do it :)
> 
> -- 
> Steve Hillman                                IT Architect
> hillman@sfu.ca                               IT Infrastructure
> 778-782-3960                                 Simon Fraser University