Email system.

[Ben Duncan]

Having been on the state contract list for about 18 years now, I can assure
you all is fair in the bid process - NOT !!!!

I imagine it is a WINBLOWS shop and/or someone they already have designed the
bid specs. FOSS is being mandated as a cost saving measure but the
central ITS authority, but in reality WE ALL KNOW the score.

As a matter of fact on of my State cleints in which we set up
email server with clamav, spamassassin, horde/imp, postfix and cyrus
less than 30 months ago. One of their agency head decided they need support for
blackberry's and EVEN thought I told them about Funambol that could be added,
the spent about 25K+ for a Exchange replacment that could support 1200 Email 
accounts.

Sheessss ....


I just wanted to bid on it and possible BLOW them all away with a
zero cost software solution.


Michael Hipp wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 17:53 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>> Ben Duncan wrote:
>>>> Integrate with Microsoft Active Directory for user accounts;
>>> I think this one item will greatly limit the range of solutions that 
>>> can be proposed.
>>
>> Not at all. If you based it on openSUSE, joining an AD is as simple as
>> can be (a nice GUI handles all the details). Then, authentication can be
>> either linux, or the AD. An AD user who logs in to the linux box need
>> not have a prior account. It will be made on the fly. And, accessing SMB
>> shares made available by the linux box and validating against the AD
>> simply works. The only requirement in setting it up (on openSUSE) are:
> 
> Yes. But I don't think they're talking about any linux clients. Appears 
> all the talk is about Outlook and such. Sounds like a Windows shop.
> 
> Did a bit of googling and didn't realize before that dovecot (for 
> example) can readily authenticate against AD. So that should help. But 
> getting the level of integration they're expecting may not be easy (e.g. 
> automatically setting up email boxes on the linux server).
> 
> If this is a Windows shop as I imagine, most of them can't even 
> /imagine/ using anything else. I would guess they have designed this RFP 
> to ensure some Exchange-based solution will win. I worked in state 
> government for a while and know that game. So sneaking in an OSS 
> solution will take some work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
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