[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-packaging] Should we evaluate Zimbra ? - a next-gen Mail Server
Peter Czanik escribió:
I tested a previous version earlier this year. It's really great, but also has some down sides. Positive: - free / OSS - full featured e-mail & calendar server Negative: - resource hog (written in Java) - many duplicate work inside, as uses it's own apache / postfix / clamav - some interesting features are missing from the OSS version
So, practically it can be installed over a base installation of openSUSE and needs a dedicated (virtual) machine. While I'm not sure, if this is something to be bundled with openSUSE, it would be great, if it could be ported to 10.2 or factory (when tested, only SuSE 10.0 was supported).
I have looked into this too in the past, however I concluded that integration requires a fairly large amount of work, unfortuantely this guys does not realize that distributions already has many of that components and insist on consistent, annoying and non-sense wheel reinvention. *sigh*
Op Friday 11 May 2007 11:43:57 schreef Cristian Rodriguez R.:
I tested a previous version earlier this year. It's really great, but also has some down sides. Positive: - free / OSS - full featured e-mail & calendar server Negative: - resource hog (written in Java) - many duplicate work inside, as uses it's own apache / postfix / clamav - some interesting features are missing from the OSS version
So, practically it can be installed over a base installation of openSUSE and needs a dedicated (virtual) machine. While I'm not sure, if this is something to be bundled with openSUSE, it would be great, if it could be ported to 10.2 or factory (when tested, only SuSE 10.0 was supported).
I have looked into this too in the past, however I concluded that integration requires a fairly large amount of work, unfortuantely this guys does not realize that distributions already has many of that components and insist on consistent, annoying and non-sense wheel reinvention. *sigh*
In case you want a groupware solution added to opensuse, you might as well look at kolab http://www.kolab.org/ and http://wiki.kolab.org with its opensuse page is at http://en.opensuse.org/Kolab Just this week kolab-2.1.0 has been released. Kolab uses only open source applications, it is very scalable each service could be run on a seperate system (BTW: this is the power of kolab it can support literally (10?) thousands of users). It's secure, it has a healty and friendly community. Further more the developers are working very hard together with the horde project to make horde the webinterface to kolab: http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Horde Once this is finished one has a very nice groupware solution: kolab as server, a webinterface and fat clients like kontact, thunderbird and Outlook. -- Richard Bos We are borrowing the world of our children, It is not inherited from our parents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Does Kolab allows any web browser to access the email server , lik Zimbra or GMail ?
From screenshots I see that only Kontact client works with Kolab.
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Op Friday 11 May 2007 21:40:54 schreef Alexey Eremenko:
Does Kolab allows any web browser to access the email server , lik Zimbra or GMail ?
The email server used in the kolab solution is cyrus. Any email web application that can handle imap can be connected to kolab. However, one does not need kolab for an email only solution. Kolab is build to be a groupware solution, so the web application should support calendaring, todo, free/busy and the like as well. As soon as the connection with horde is done (expected in some months), a very nice groupware web interface is than available. This supports everything from email, calendaring, tasks, up to an interface for mobile devices. A very complete and compelling setup if you ask me.
From screenshots I see that only Kontact client works with Kolab.
It works with Outlook using a connector and thunderbird as well. Perhaps there are no screenshots of it, that's possible of course. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
I think besides Zimbra and Kolab there is: Courier that is both email-server/email-client/HTTP server for emails. http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html I see no screenshots of it. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Op Saturday 12 May 2007 11:41:28 schreef Alexey Eremenko:
I think besides Zimbra and Kolab there is: Courier that is both email-server/email-client/HTTP server for emails.
And?? Courier on its own does not provide a groupware solution, that is what zimbra and kolab do. If you like, it would be possible to swap cyrus for courier in the kolab solution. -- Richard Bos We are borrowing the world of our children, It is not inherited from our parents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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