E-mail/calendar suite on OpenBSD (Kerio on OpenBSD)?

[Nikolaus Hiebaum]

Hi,

I am currently searching for an e-mail/calendar application which is
capable of the following:
- support clients running on Windows machines (Outlook)
- support clients running on Linux/OpenBSD machines (Evolution)
- provide Webmail incl. the calendar

One software, which looks like it can do all of that, I found is Kerio
Mail Server (http://www.kerio.com/kms_home.html). It appears to be capable
of synchronizing between the various sessions.

My question is whether anyone of you has successfully installed this on
OpenBSD. It seems to be supported by Linux (Redhat and Suse) and MacOS.

My other question is whether you know of alternatives. Evolution looks
very nice, but it doesn't have the webmail feature *with* the calendar.

I am really open to suggestions.

Thanks,
Nick

[James Turner]

Post by Nikolaus Hiebaum
Hi,
I am currently searching for an e-mail/calendar application which is
- support clients running on Windows machines (Outlook)
- support clients running on Linux/OpenBSD machines (Evolution)
- provide Webmail incl. the calendar
One software, which looks like it can do all of that, I found is Kerio
Mail Server (http://www.kerio.com/kms_home.html). It appears to be capable
of synchronizing between the various sessions.
My question is whether anyone of you has successfully installed this on
OpenBSD. It seems to be supported by Linux (Redhat and Suse) and MacOS.
My other question is whether you know of alternatives. Evolution looks
very nice, but it doesn't have the webmail feature *with* the calendar.
I am really open to suggestions.
Thanks,
Nick

You might want to check out http://www.horde.org/groupware/.

[Terry]

Post by Nikolaus Hiebaum
Hi,
I am currently searching for an e-mail/calendar application which is
- support clients running on Windows machines (Outlook)
- support clients running on Linux/OpenBSD machines (Evolution)
- provide Webmail incl. the calendar

<snip>

Post by Nikolaus Hiebaum
My other question is whether you know of alternatives. Evolution looks
very nice, but it doesn't have the webmail feature *with* the calendar.

I don't know how well it will interface with Outlook and Evolution but
have you looked at Horde? It's in the ports.

[Bret Lambert]

Post by Nikolaus Hiebaum
Hi,
I am currently searching for an e-mail/calendar application which is
- support clients running on Windows machines (Outlook)
- support clients running on Linux/OpenBSD machines (Evolution)
- provide Webmail incl. the calendar
One software, which looks like it can do all of that, I found is Kerio
Mail Server (http://www.kerio.com/kms_home.html). It appears to be capable
of synchronizing between the various sessions.
My question is whether anyone of you has successfully installed this on
OpenBSD. It seems to be supported by Linux (Redhat and Suse) and MacOS.
My other question is whether you know of alternatives. Evolution looks
very nice, but it doesn't have the webmail feature *with* the calendar.
I am really open to suggestions.

My personal suggestion? Ask your users why, other than the fact that
Outlook does it, do you need one application to handle both calendaring
and email?

If you can get your users to break out of that (rather idiotic, IMO)
paradigm, an entire world of easier-to-support possibilities opens up
for you.

Just so you don't think I'm being a cocky ass, I asked that question,
and was rewarded with "because I'm the president and I say so." I'm now
in the process of rolling out Scalix.

- Bert

Post by Nikolaus Hiebaum
Thanks,
Nick

[Craig Skinner]

Post by Nikolaus Hiebaum
Hi,
I am currently searching for an e-mail/calendar application which is
- support clients running on Windows machines (Outlook)
- support clients running on Linux/OpenBSD machines (Evolution)

maybe look at:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/

Along with dovecot/courier & sendmail/postfix whatever.....

[Lars Noodén]

Post by Nikolaus Hiebaum
I am currently searching for an e-mail/calendar application which is
- support clients running on Windows machines (Outlook)
- support clients running on Linux/OpenBSD machines (Evolution)
- provide Webmail incl. the calendar
...
... My other question is whether you know of alternatives...

I have a mild interest, but it's not really my activity. Here are three
I've read about:

Zimbra has gotten good mentions:
http://www.zimbra.com/
Apparently the source is available:
http://www.zimbra.com/community/downloads.html

Scalix is another:
http://www.scalix.com/community/downloads/

So is OpenXchange:
http://www.open-xchange.com/

There are a handful of others, but I can't recall them. If you try any
out or decide to deploy any it'd would be very useful to hear how it went.

Standards based modules can probably be put together to create the
illusion of a monolith. I question the monolithic approach to such
activities.

Anyway, using Outlook will be problems. It doesn't work well with MS
Exchange, but people have been browbeat into not saying anything about
it. "People will just get used to a lower level of service." Using it
in conjunction with another service will likely cause them to take it
out on you and the other technology, so best to at least make plans to
phase it out so that you have the option.


-Lars