Francis,
From my understanding squirelmail (sp?) just gives you a webmail
interface to your qmail/sendmail/postfix system.
I appreciate the ability to have several different apps that work together to give the user/admin the full functionality required. However, am getting a little tired of learning several different apps to achieve something. Joseph On 6/29/07, Francis Musinguzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. ====================================================== &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
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