(Excuse the top posting, I'm using my law school webmail right now.) Hi Thomas,
Two nights ago I just set up free-in-both-senses groupware software for my freelance IT consulting business. I'm using a virtual private server (Linode) running SOGo (for webmail and calendaring and contacts), Funambol (for mobile device sync), Cyrus IMAPd and Postfix (for the underlying email setup), OpenLDAP (for sharing accounts among these apps), PostgreSQL (for storing the data), and Debian (as the underlying operating system). It meant being up system-hacking until 9am but so far it seems worth it. I even have calendar sync working with my desktop calendar app (KDE4's KOrganizer plus the community-created kcaldav addon) and calendar+email sync with my android phone, without having to give Google my data. :) Check back with me later about how well it works in practice, but I'm bullish so far. The webmail is decent too. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [email protected] [currently using the school's Novell GroupWise] [email protected] [currently reading this using mutt and ssh] [email protected] [current using the above SOGo setup] >>> Thomas Levine 02/03/11 9:27 AM >>> I'd like to move away from my wonderful, integrated, proprietary, web-based Google Services Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Lists and Google Docs. I ask for suggestions of what to move to. I'd like to be able to share files across multiple computers. I need some sort of web-based access, but it doesn't need to be great if I can use a separate, superior, more flexible application. The ability to access the services offline would be nice but is not too important yet. I'm also not that concerned with privacy; I was in fact considering releasing all of my emails publicly, but I found it hard to do with the Gmail interface. Email is probably the most important as my whole life is in there. Proprietary Google searches lead me to http://www.gnumail.org http://www.runbox.com http://www.fastmail.fm These don't seem any cheaper than running a mail server on a virtual private server, which would be more flexible. I don't think that would be too annoying either. Thoughts on that? There are a bunch of desktop calendar applications, and I'm sure some of them are more awesome than Google Calendar. How does one sync them across computers and version/backup them? My inclination is to use git on a plain text calendar file if I'm not satisfied by the more conventional approaches. I *love* Google Lists for entering school assignment due dates, but it's currently very closed, with no importing or exporting. It may be less useful once I graduate in May as I'm likely not to have assignments due every day, but some more advanced equivalent would be wonderful. Does anyone know of an equivalent for this? I don't use Google Docs much except for short-term collaboration with mortals, and I don't mind using it that for situations like that. For other situations, git and ssh is better. And I can use Gobby for brainwriting. Thanks Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
