[Gllug] MS Exchange - groupware replacement

Juergen Schinker ba1020 at homie.homelinux.net
Wed Aug 5 20:32:44 UTC 2009


Alain Williams wrote:
> I have not had a look at this area recently, I was wondering what the collected
> wisdom was on providing equvalent functionality. A customer is asking me,
> they are essentially green field: ie no MS exchange [they have mdaemon that would be replaced],
> but they use MS Outlook on the desktop. Most desktops are MS XP pro.
> 
> Wanted functionality
> 
> 1) Email
> 2) Groupware (mainly callendaring)
> 3) Integration with mobiles (eg blackberry)
> 
> (1) In the first instance I would be inclined to install: exim & dovecot; with squirrelmail
> for those who want webmail (eg from home). I would prob put user registration in an OpenLDAP
> database for when we get them to move data files from multiple C: drives onto Samba
> $HOMEs (a gleam in the eye of their IT man). This is all reasonably easy.
> 
> I might try to pursuade them to move to Thunderbird rather than Outlook.
> 
> (2) I have done before using web apps (eg Horde); if they keep outlook then I need something
>     that speaks the dreaded MAPI protocol. All the plugins seem proprietary.
> 
> (3) I know little about.
> 
> So: what is best server side to do this ?
> 
> 
1) Cyrus-Imapd with postfix
2) opengroupware.org  (has MAPI-Connector)
3) Mobiles with IMAP(S)-Clients (maybe a syncml solution for PUSH)
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