On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the subject says, is there an all-FOSS MS Exchange server > replacement? One that does mail and calendaring with LookOut at least. > > A built-in (or known to work) web-based mail and calendaring add-on > would be nice to have
This one looks promising: http://www.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/download.htm However I am not sure of Outlook thing being FOSS compliant. I do'nt know but there could be WebServices based on MS Exchange, which can probably be used to translate proprietary calendaring info to standards compliant calendaring info, and this info could be served by a FOSS compliant server. We need some mechanism to interface the FOSS Compliant server to MS Exchange Server, though. I agree it is not 100% FOSS Solution, but for organisations who have sunk their money already, this could be a good transition. For those who havent, why bother? Wo'nt it be better, if we use MS Exchange with Open protocols enabled. I find most people do'nt use IMAP / POP3 on Exchange, but restrict to the proprietary RPC based protocol. I have seen successful working of Thunderbird with IMAP with MS Exchange as backend along with integration of addressbook to Active Directory. Next, a couple of users were also satisfied with Lightning Calendaring Extension for Thunderbird. What I havent seen yet is using Lightning with a third-party FOSS compliant Calendaring Server. I understand shared calendaring is a very small segment of users and if we could use Thunderbird with a third-party FOSS compliant Calendaring Server in sharing mode, I think the riddle is solved. Would like to get feedback of others in this regard. anand _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
