Microsoft Exchange Replacement

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Are you referring to OGo?  (OpenGroupWare.org)
If not, check that out as well.


James McDonald wrote:
| Vu Pham wrote:
|
|>> -----Original Message-----
|>> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
|>> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Ben Duncan
|>> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:00 PM
|>> To: Linux tips and tricks
|>> Subject: Microsoft Exchange Replacement
|>>
|>> Does anyone know of a OSS drop in replacement for Microsloth Exchange
|>> Server ?
|>>
|>>
|>
|>
|> I am looking for the same thing. I 've tried Binary Insight server (
|> www.bynari.com ) . I think it's good for small systems. One of my
|> customers
|> is using it. It was good when they started with small number of users,
|> but
|> now I think it does not scale well when the number of share folders and
|> emails increases. They are working on a new verson 3.0, beta at this
|> time. I
|> 've not tried it yet.
|>
|> I also tried Suse's OpenExchage ( now of Novell ). It seems nice, but the
|> connector for Outlook seems having problem with Outlook 2003. I tried it
|> with Outlook 2003 and met some problems, made a google search and
|> found some
|> other people having similar problems. One of the recent articles says
|> that
|> NetLine will release a new version of OpenExchange this March with big
|> improvements and the new version can run other some other Linux distros
|> also. Currently OpenExchange 4.1 can only run on Suse Server 8. I
|> really am
|> anxious to try the new one.
|>
|> I am trying Groupware 6.5 right now. Just downloaded their eval versions,
|> and am installing into my RHES 3 under Vmware into my notebook :-)
|>
|> Vu
|>
|>
|>
| I have done the same sort of looking at the products as Vu and it seems
| that the OpenExchange product from Novell is static. The open source
| version vu mentions http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/ is
| forked from OpenExchange and runs on java. If you know about LDAP / Java
| / Postgres / apache / tomcat / Perl then it's an interesting several
| hours to install (that was a few months ago on fc1). It's hardware
| requirements for a large environment would be hefty due to it's java
roots.
|
| Unilever.com is using a linux backend and a custom written IMAP plugin
| in Outlook. The issue is that the standard outlook pst file needs to be
| moved to a server so it can roam with the user and the calendaring and
| scheduling is 'local' only. Meaning that you can't grab every bodies
| freebusy information but they can do personal calendaring and scheduling
| fairly well.
|
| Lotus Notes may provide an alternative as it can be used with Outlook
| and includes the free/busy scheduling ability (I hear)
|
| http://www.scalix.com/products/ <== these guys make a email server that
| may do what you need.
|
| http://www.egroupware.org/ <== if you want to use a simple browser based
| email and colaboration/calendaring/scheduling software this may be
| suitable also it's got a heap of modules so you need to do a lot of
| tweaking ... Install was easy though.
|
|
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