On א', 2005-10-02 at 22:16 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo, from the post of Sat, 01 Oct: > > It replaces quite few of your installed RPMS btw with something that > > they build. One side effect that I had is with sendmail - I didn't get > > any more messages in /var/log/messages, and 2 hours later I only found > > well, sounds like the developpers "zimberu" your computer :-) > sorry, it had to be said. I have yet to see one MAPI server replacement > that works. not even one exists today that is free AND needs no costly > connectors AND is stable, etc. so far I looked into Kolab, Open > Exchange, and a few others. there are a few good proprietary solutions, > but nothing that works transparently enough with Outlook, the client's > favorite.
Zimbra is not a backend for Outlook; it's a server and a client in one, where the client is a AJAX'd web application (ala Gmail and the new Yahoo mail). If you'll watch the Flash demo on their web site, the web application looks ubercool; at first sight, it looks like Project Hula's ( http://www.hula-project.org/ ) promise - brought today. However, judging from what Hetz says, it not quite there yet... Project Hula sounds like a promising project cause it's made by free software people (Ximian at Novell) for free software people. Also, Project Hula plans to be a backend for desktop programs like Evolution (while also offering a web interface). What Zimbra offers is more similar to what Yahoo Mail and Hotmail offer. On the other hand, Project Hula based on a shaky (IMO) codebase of Novell NetMail (a once-proprietary product) and I anticipate it'll have the same growing pains as Mozilla (based on Netscape's codebase). -- Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
