Email, Calendar, Scheduling, Address Book, synchronization (without Outlook)
Hello All, I have a client with 5 machines/users on a peer to peer network. The only network resource they share is access to the Internet. About an hour ago, he asked me to help him set up email addresses for the 5 people in the office. He visited a friend that has an exchange server and all of the employees are using outlook. He asked me if I could set his office up the same way. After going over the potential security risks associated with using Exchange and Outlook, I think I finally have him convinced that Outlook/Exchange is a bad idea. He is now giving me the opportunity to come up with more secure alternatives. This is where I need the help. He wants to be able to open the program or website and schedule a meeting with the people that he needs to attend. Those people should in turn receive an email (or whatever notice possible) stating the meeting has been scheduled, who scheduled it and should be allowed to confirm that they will be there. There should be a universal address book that allows you to associate birthdays and anniversaries with contacts and those birthdays and anniversaries should show up on the calendar. They already have PCs or laptops which are either running Windows XP or Windows 2000. They have a spare machine that I could install Linux on if need be, but the users will still have to run Windows on their machines. If there is a web based solution for all of this, they can get the web space if needed. The main thing is, he wants to be able to sync all of this with his Handspring Treo. Is there such an animal? .:Thinker
Open Exchange by SuSE. http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/index.html Have a good day Neal http://www.susehelp.com -----Original Message----- From: Thinker [mailto:thinker@thoughtprogress.com] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:12 PM To: SuSE List Subject: [SLE] Email, Calendar, Scheduling, Address Book, synchronization (without Outlook) Hello All, I have a client with 5 machines/users on a peer to peer network. The only network resource they share is access to the Internet. About an hour ago, he asked me to help him set up email addresses for the 5 people in the office. He visited a friend that has an exchange server and all of the employees are using outlook. He asked me if I could set his office up the same way. After going over the potential security risks associated with using Exchange and Outlook, I think I finally have him convinced that Outlook/Exchange is a bad idea. He is now giving me the opportunity to come up with more secure alternatives. This is where I need the help. He wants to be able to open the program or website and schedule a meeting with the people that he needs to attend. Those people should in turn receive an email (or whatever notice possible) stating the meeting has been scheduled, who scheduled it and should be allowed to confirm that they will be there. There should be a universal address book that allows you to associate birthdays and anniversaries with contacts and those birthdays and anniversaries should show up on the calendar. They already have PCs or laptops which are either running Windows XP or Windows 2000. They have a spare machine that I could install Linux on if need be, but the users will still have to run Windows on their machines. If there is a web based solution for all of this, they can get the web space if needed. The main thing is, he wants to be able to sync all of this with his Handspring Treo. Is there such an animal? .:Thinker -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Thanks Neal. I was, however, hoping for a 'lower cost' solution. Lower cost as in a lot closer to free. Something I could just install on a spare machine and let it run; or something I could install on a web server. Any ideas? .:Thinker On Aug 16, 2004, at 10:57 PM, nhaas wrote:
Open Exchange by SuSE. http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/index.html Have a good day
-----Original Message----- From: Thinker [mailto:thinker@thoughtprogress.com] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:12 PM To: SuSE List Subject: [SLE] Email, Calendar, Scheduling, Address Book, synchronization (without Outlook)
Hello All,
I have a client with 5 machines/users on a peer to peer network. The only network resource they share is access to the Internet. About an hour ago, he asked me to help him set up email addresses for the 5 people in the office. He visited a friend that has an exchange server and all of the employees are using outlook. He asked me if I could set his office up the same way.
After going over the potential security risks associated with using Exchange and Outlook, I think I finally have him convinced that Outlook/Exchange is a bad idea. He is now giving me the opportunity to come up with more secure alternatives. This is where I need the help.
He wants to be able to open the program or website and schedule a meeting with the people that he needs to attend. Those people should in turn receive an email (or whatever notice possible) stating the meeting has been scheduled, who scheduled it and should be allowed to confirm that they will be there.
There should be a universal address book that allows you to associate birthdays and anniversaries with contacts and those birthdays and anniversaries should show up on the calendar.
They already have PCs or laptops which are either running Windows XP or Windows 2000. They have a spare machine that I could install Linux on if need be, but the users will still have to run Windows on their machines.
If there is a web based solution for all of this, they can get the web space if needed. The main thing is, he wants to be able to sync all of this with his Handspring Treo.
Is there such an animal?
.:Thinker
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Thinker wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Email, Calendar, Scheduling, Address Book, synchronization (without Outlook)' on Tue, Aug 17 at 09:18:
Thanks Neal.
I was, however, hoping for a 'lower cost' solution. Lower cost as in a lot closer to free. Something I could just install on a spare machine and let it run; or something I could install on a web server.
Any ideas?
You might look into the horde applications at horde.org. Their calendar app, kronolith, has shared calendar support and ical support in the CVS version, which would do what you need if it works. I'd assume that it works reasonably well. Kronolith integrates well with IMP - their webmail application (I like IMP, having used it under prety heavy load years ago with no problems). Both integrate nicelu with Turba, which is their contact management system (use the DB of your choice for a backend, possibly LDAP). There's a couple of other web-based groupware apps out there that are similar. Go over to freshmeat.net and search for groupware, or hit google up. Any of those apache/php/mysql solutions will run under windows or linux, etc, so you don't *have* to set up a linux box. But if it's gonna be a server that needs to be reliable, you know what *should* be done... :) --Danny
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:14, Thinker wrote:
Thanks Neal.
I was, however, hoping for a 'lower cost' solution. Lower cost as in a lot closer to free. Something I could just install on a spare machine and let it run; or something I could install on a web server.
Try http://www.opensourcecms.com/. They let you fiddle with a lot of oss
php/mysql apps online without having to install them so you can get a
'try before you install' type feel for it.
They have a 'groupware' section which I belive is the technical term for
what you want, i.e. shared address book, shared contacts etc.
Hope that helps
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You might take a look at: http://www.tutos.org/homepage/
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From: "Thinker"
Thanks Neal.
I was, however, hoping for a 'lower cost' solution. Lower cost as in a lot closer to free. Something I could just install on a spare machine and let it run; or something I could install on a web server.
Any ideas?
.:Thinker
On Aug 16, 2004, at 10:57 PM, nhaas wrote:
Open Exchange by SuSE. http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/index.html Have a good day
-----Original Message----- From: Thinker [mailto:thinker@thoughtprogress.com] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:12 PM To: SuSE List Subject: [SLE] Email, Calendar, Scheduling, Address Book, synchronization (without Outlook)
Hello All,
I have a client with 5 machines/users on a peer to peer network. The only network resource they share is access to the Internet. About an hour ago, he asked me to help him set up email addresses for the 5 people in the office. He visited a friend that has an exchange server and all of the employees are using outlook. He asked me if I could set his office up the same way.
After going over the potential security risks associated with using Exchange and Outlook, I think I finally have him convinced that Outlook/Exchange is a bad idea. He is now giving me the opportunity to come up with more secure alternatives. This is where I need the help.
He wants to be able to open the program or website and schedule a meeting with the people that he needs to attend. Those people should in turn receive an email (or whatever notice possible) stating the meeting has been scheduled, who scheduled it and should be allowed to confirm that they will be there.
There should be a universal address book that allows you to associate birthdays and anniversaries with contacts and those birthdays and anniversaries should show up on the calendar.
They already have PCs or laptops which are either running Windows XP or Windows 2000. They have a spare machine that I could install Linux on if need be, but the users will still have to run Windows on their machines.
If there is a web based solution for all of this, they can get the web space if needed. The main thing is, he wants to be able to sync all of this with his Handspring Treo.
Is there such an animal?
.:Thinker
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Op dinsdag 17 augustus 2004 16:14, schreef Thinker:
I was, however, hoping for a 'lower cost' solution. Lower cost as in a lot closer to free. Something I could just install on a spare machine and let it run; or something I could install on a web server.
http://kolab.org/ http://dot.kde.org/1092468813/ Is I think what you're looking for. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thinker wrote: | Hello All, | | I have a client with 5 machines/users on a peer to peer network. The | only network resource they share is access to the Internet. About an | hour ago, he asked me to help him set up email addresses for the 5 | people in the office. He visited a friend that has an exchange server | and all of the employees are using outlook. He asked me if I could set | his office up the same way. | | After going over the potential security risks associated with using | Exchange and Outlook, I think I finally have him convinced that | Outlook/Exchange is a bad idea. He is now giving me the opportunity to | come up with more secure alternatives. This is where I need the help. | | He wants to be able to open the program or website and schedule a | meeting with the people that he needs to attend. Those people should in | turn receive an email (or whatever notice possible) stating the meeting | has been scheduled, who scheduled it and should be allowed to confirm | that they will be there. | | There should be a universal address book that allows you to associate | birthdays and anniversaries with contacts and those birthdays and | anniversaries should show up on the calendar. | | They already have PCs or laptops which are either running Windows XP or | Windows 2000. They have a spare machine that I could install Linux on if | need be, but the users will still have to run Windows on their machines. | | If there is a web based solution for all of this, they can get the web | space if needed. The main thing is, he wants to be able to sync all of | this with his Handspring Treo. | | Is there such an animal? | | .:Thinker You could try Netmail from Novell, Open Exchange from SuSE, or got to www.open-xchange.org and sign up to get the source for Open Exchange (the same that SuSE uses) since is going to be released under GPL. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBIfvY5JB+bPW3+KwRAuZsAJ43AtD1QsQPOpGbP5anCf40A2+ryQCdHUiv s4EcGKghSpy/+LXnn+e7t9g= =eCRv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thinker wrote:
Hello All,
I have a client with 5 machines/users on a peer to peer network. The only network resource they share is access to the Internet. About an hour ago, he asked me to help him set up email addresses for the 5 people in the office. He visited a friend that has an exchange server and all of the employees are using outlook. He asked me if I could set his office up the same way.
After going over the potential security risks associated with using Exchange and Outlook, I think I finally have him convinced that Outlook/Exchange is a bad idea. He is now giving me the opportunity to come up with more secure alternatives. This is where I need the help.
He wants to be able to open the program or website and schedule a meeting with the people that he needs to attend. Those people should in turn receive an email (or whatever notice possible) stating the meeting has been scheduled, who scheduled it and should be allowed to confirm that they will be there.
There should be a universal address book that allows you to associate birthdays and anniversaries with contacts and those birthdays and anniversaries should show up on the calendar.
They already have PCs or laptops which are either running Windows XP or Windows 2000. They have a spare machine that I could install Linux on if need be, but the users will still have to run Windows on their machines.
If there is a web based solution for all of this, they can get the web space if needed. The main thing is, he wants to be able to sync all of this with his Handspring Treo.
Is there such an animal?
.:Thinker
I have seen many posts on this and was wondering if Evolution would be a possibility as an Outlook like linux client to do what you need? -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================
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