Joseph,
Considering your needs; which are quite basic, at best. Using a simple
system like squirrel mail, would allow U the benefit of reduced (eliminated)
down time while providing all the stated requirements. For the outlookers,
the option of the squiremail outlook theme, would allow U to think of
esthetics and functionality. This system is a simple rpm found on most of
the popular distros that works out of the box, for most requirements. There
are other systems as mentioned before but for most users who may never
notice or bother with all the extra features scalability of squirrel mail is
a great plus.
U didn't mention the modalities of your organization. In as much as squirrel
mail is able to comfortably support 100 + users, things like AMCs and
support for anticipated risk may matter more than reduced or no initial
cost. Here comes Kerio mail and the like.
Both systems are open source but the organizational requirements should
guide you in taking this decision. Simplicity is a must. U don't seem to
require too much so don't both yourself with systems that seem to offer so
many things, as users may never appreciate or bother with them.
Downtime, support, maintenance, setup time, and other initial requirements
(time) should help you choose what will cover all your needs and some. Good
luck in going open source, it’s quite an experience.
FRANCIS.
PS: When it comes to the actual world, what seemed like an advantage of open
source, the variety, becomes a liabilty. The time to choose the best tool
for your needs becomes a laborious task. This may seem surprising but a
study showed that too many choices usually make the process of choosing much
harder, for most people.
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&David Ziggy Lubowa writes:
Am leaning towards zimbra, it seems the more activity and attention an
app gets, the faster bugs are fixed and the better the support.
++ Not to be biased considering this is a linux mailing list, BUT if you
dealing with "outlook" users on your network the best solution "Without" a
doubt is exchange, you can hack the linux mail servers as much as you
wish, but a combination of Exchange server and Microsoft Small business
server is the winner. You can look at all the other alternatives zimbra
inclusive but your turn around time can not beat a person who will setup
exchange/SBS with groupware which is now the main thing in mail setups.
oh and i stand to be corrected on this :).
On 6/28/07, Reinier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I have always been quite impressed with egroupware (www.egroupware.org).
Another alternative is horde (www.horde.org) Both are mysql/php based
and
there are even packages of them for some distros.
I am pretty sure, some people will recommend zimbra, (www.zimbra.com) as
;>> it is
very hip at the moment.
for moving the mailboxes you could see if the perl script imapsync
http://directory.fsf.org/imapsync.html is usefull to you. You would need
either an admin password (and a server that grants access to the admin
to all
mailboxes) or all passwords of the users (which you, off course, could
get by
asking them (in a webpage, for example)
good luck,
reinier
On Thursday 28 June 2007 09:53:56 joseph mpora wrote:
> There is only 1 windows based server left on our network, it handles
> emails (using mdaemon). Am yet to find a troublefree way of migrating
> the address books, emails and accounts of the over 100 users to an
> opensource solution.
>
> Am following the emergence and death (read hula project) of the
> opensource solutions that might fit the bill.
>
> http://www.itwales.com/997890.htm
> http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/opensourcegroupware
>
> Our needs are simple, send/receive email, pop, imap, web based email
> access, calendar and address book.
>
> I know I can set this up using a different application handling each
> task but would prefer a single solution that combines (or manages) the
> different functions.
>
> Lastly, a web based administration interface that is simple enough for
> the non-*nix administrators to use.
>
> Anyone on this list that has a working setup or is in the same boat we
> could work together with?
>
> Cheers, Joseph
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