Thanks :) Like Shawn, I have found Citadel to be almost idiot-proof to set up. I think it involves typing something like 12 things and it's running. The multi-domain support is great - again because it is so easy - and in general it's an out of the box Groupware solution.
One of the things I really like about it are the Floors and Rooms. It might help to remember that Citadel started life as a BBS (and still runs as one underneath - grab a Citadel client and point it to port 504 on any Citadel installation you like and see for yourself) and it was modelled after a building - a Citadel, in fact. Again as Shawn points out, the Floors are general themes and rooms are specific topics within that theme. I should point out that there's no need to ever create floors and rooms if they're not required, but since they show up as IMAP folders in user's mail clients, it's a great way to disseminate corporate info, policies, and whatever else. Couple of gotchas: 1. There are simple no good clients for it. Kontact is the closest thing, but even it sucks horribly with IMAP email. I've been trying to use Kontact with any IMAP email for about a year now and every time I try it I go back to Thunderbird. The PIM apps work fine (Calendar, todo, Contacts, etc), but IMAP email has been broken for a long time in KMail and is still broken. If you like staring at the "blue screen of refreshing folders" then KMail is your IMAP client. I have taken to using Thunderbird with the Sunbird and Lightning plugins with Sync Kolab. 2. If you elect to use the citmail server to send email (which is the default setup) then the address of every email you send will be put into your address book. As far as I know there is no way to shut off this feature short of using your own sendmail and it results in a very cluttered email address book. 3. Spamassassin integration is a little wonky. There is a spot within the setup to specify where a Spamassassin server resides, but the way in which Citadel interacts with it is different. SA basically 'checks' the message as per normal, but if it comes back as spam (with the X-SPAM header set to yes) then Citadel just discards it rather than delivering it with the rewritten headers. I don't trust any server that much and want to see all of the email that it figures is spam. I have a post in the Citadel FAQ somewhere that points to a blog entry by Shawn and another one by me about setting up SA-learn with Citadel. I'm using a mail gateway at the moment to do all of my scanning because I don't like the way Citadel implements it. I also agree with Gustin in that I've been disappointed with the Groupware servers I've tried. There is no magic bullet out there and all of them fall short in some way or ways. Scalix probably shows the most promise in terms of ease of setup and Outlook connectivity, but the Outlook connector for Outlook 2007 appears to be unstable in that it works on some clients and not on others. I don't think there is a Groupware server out there that is fully functional on both OSes. Gustin has it nailed: find out what they want. Everyone says they need an "Exchange replacement", but they don't know what that means. What they really mean is "we need shared tasks, IMAP email, and a mobile interface for it" or whatever. If you successfully get a list of requirements together you may find an OSS Groupware solution that can hit those points. J Neil Bower wrote: > Hi. I was looking at an article on Citadel (www.citadel.org) in a couple of > different linux magazines (nice articles Jon) and was wondering if anyone has > had experience with using Citadel. Any feedback good or bad would be > appreciated. > > I have someone interested in an alternative to Exchange to be used in a > business setup. Ideally they would like group calendaring/scheduling > capabilities. Are there any other alternatives available that could be used > in a mixed OS environment? > > Thanks, > > Neil > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.770.2837 "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
