Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems » 05. Email Servers

What can’t you do in Linux?

freelock — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:45:40 +0000

Looks like IBM is going aggressively up against the Outlook/Exchange juggernaut. Several months ago, they made Domino, their mail server, free for any business who buys the licenses for the mail client, Notes. Now they’re making Notes available for Linux. The Notes/Domino combination is more than just an email system–it’s a complete database system, including calendaring, team rooms, private intranet features, addressing, and much more. While Notes is a lot different, with a fair learning curve, my clients who use it absolutely love it.
IBM unveils Lotus Notes client for Linux

Zimbra, Joomla, What’s in a name?

freelock — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:14:54 +0000

Names of open source projects are suddenly getting ridiculous. Two new names were just unveiled in the Open Source world: Zimbra, and Joomla. While the names may be silly and potentially off-putting, the projects themselves are compelling.

Joomla is simply a new name for a very popular web site management system that was called Mambo. Due to some political in-fighting between the company that sponsored Mambo and the core developers of the project, Mambo has now forked. For now, our bets are on the core developers, who have adopted the name Joomla for the project. At Freelock, we’re closing in on a dozen Mambo installs, so we’re big fans of this software.

Today, we learned about a new project with a funny name, called Zimbra. Zimbra looks like a combination of Gmail, Exchange, and Hula, and they’ve managed to beat Hula to a working release. It’s a mail server, calendar server, and contact/directory server, running on a completely open source stack. They’ve concentrated on doing a rich browser interface and providing a migration path for Exchange. Looks like a very promising project–the demos make me want to get it up and running right now. Unfortunately, it’s primarily a Java application, which is outside our area of expertise. And they’ve made lots of other architectural choices that make this one look difficult to get going. But go check out the demos–this one may well prove to be worth the pain.

Joomla

Zimbra

Hula, hula, can’t wait for Hula!

freelock — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:21:56 +0000

Novell is sponsoring development of a new email/calendar server called Hula. This promises to be an Exchange killer, providing standards-based calendar sharing and storage using WebCal to share calendars and free/busy information. It’s also a complete SMTP/IMAP/POP server with a built-in web interface, vacation messages, and eventually the ability to do server-side sorting and spam and virus filtering.

The project was announced last week, but they already have a working version, mainly because it’s built upon Novell’s NetMail product. Evolution, Chandler, and Mozilla Thunderbird will all support this soon!

OpenExchange Installation on Mandrake

freelock — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:09:02 +0000

Frank Neugebauer has written a step-by-step set of instructions to install OpenExchange in Mandrake Linux. OpenExchange is a groupware server providing similar functionality to Microsoft Exchange, only with many more features.

Email Server Resources

freelock — Mon, 24 May 2004 06:05:56 +0000

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