-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 March 2003 9:51 am, Shawn Grover wrote: > Out of curiosity, is there not an "Email Server" package out there that you > can install, and it handles everything including the MTA, and POP3, IMAP, > etc. From my perspective thus far, it seems that installing an email > server is tougher than it needs to be. > You know, I've asked myself the same thing many times. :-) I currently administer IMail on a legacy Windows server. It does SMTP, POP, IMAP, has a webmail module with built-in calendaring (and SSL), simple setup of vacation messages, etc, etc. Even has its down built-in LDAP server. It's nice. But, alas, it's not Linux-compatible.
All the parts exist in the Linux world, but it's more of a Lego type thing - find the building blocks you want and put them together (as you've already discovered). If you want a whole package, they're harder to come by, but they do exist. Kolab, aka Kroupware (http://www.kroupware.org/) is OSS. It's made up of existing programs (apache, postfix, openldap, etc), but the combination of all these pieces together in the integration they are trying to do (to create a groupware program, as in an Exchange replacement) is new, so it's not quite 1.0 yet. There is also Citadel (http://uncensored.citadel.org/citadel/), which I just checked the tar file and it seems to be GPL, and claims to have everything built-in, but I've never used it (or even attempted to install it) so I can't really tell you one way or the other anything about it (but now that I know it's GPL I think I'm gonna try it out). There is also Bynari's InsightServer, but it's not free/Free, so that may not fit your requirements. Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+bMyySiY+RXI7JS4RAgH6AJ98+OJJ81bjBPz615NZHKeXQLlfGQCgszWe 8KB6hL+iwiKCrQI2/RsHX3U= =1BDO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
