Quoting vince cagud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> no flames. but those you've mentioned are just MTAs...they dont do 
> groupware...task scheduling, document sharing, IMAP/POP retrieval (dunno 
> abt smail), even webmail. 

"CYWare" mentioned SuSE's OpenExchange suite.  Or you might like Bynari's
Insight Server suite, http://www.bynari.net/ . Here are some webmail
components: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/webmail

Originally, I held back from answering your query because my first
instinct was to say "What specific _functionality_ did you want?"  Which
I was afraid would sound confrontational.

Generally speaking, the tradition in the Unix world is to construct
tools that do specific jobs.  If you need to do a number of specific
tasks, you find the best individual tools, and use them in combination
in the way that suits you best.  In contrast, Microsoft Exchange does
only one set of things it was built to do, in one specific way (whose
design and operation I happen to think is an engineering disaster).
Microsoft Corporation markets this as a virtue and calls it
"integration".

> i dont think they're comparable at all. like jun, i've done my own
> search for the Exchange replacement and all i found were not as
> feature-rich as Exchange. 

But that's like looking at a carburetor and saying "But I don't know how
to drive this."  ;->  But since you're looking for a "suite" and don't
want to assemble the pieces yourself from
most-suitable-for-your-purposes pieces, you're going to end up examining
things SuSE OpenExchange Server (formerly called SuSE Linux eMail
Server), Bynari Insight Server, and Samsung Contact (formerly called HP
Openmail).

> hmmmmm...openmail by hp is not open-source either and they've stopped
> supporting the product. 

But Samsung _is_ supporting it.

SuSE OpenExchange Server, and very likely the other two as well,
includes quite a lot of open-source components.  If you want a "suite"
comprising 100% open source, you'll probably have to construct it
yourself from components that best suit your needs.

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