Let me second the idea of using zimbra. I have Zimbra running on Debian and have not had to touch it for a long time. The calendaring is great. It even supports calendars for inventory items like rooms and av equipment.
Plus the email filtering and AV checking is great. Using the mobile web interface on my symbian phone is great for reading mail. I haven't been successful at sending mobile mail via the web interface. But since zimbra supports imap, my phone can check mail directly with it's own imap mail reader and reply just fine. I have noticed one interesting feature. If someone sends you a meeting request from outlook, zimbra understands it and can give you a quick link to putting the meeting request on your calendar. Oh, and in case you don't like your users using web based apps, or they turn their nose up at them, point them to the zimbradesktop app. It basically is a mozilla install with some additional components and a nice new interface that hides that it is a browser. Interactions are more snappy through less network traffic, and local data caching. Just some more reasons to look at zimbra. ----- "Mark J. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry > > as far as clients, you might look at Mulberry Mail > (http://www.mulberrymail.com/) - has what's reported to be one of the > better > clients supporting CalDAV: > > http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2008/06/mulberry-the-underdog-wins.html > > I have used Mulberry Mail for a while AND have started using Zimbra > (which > supports CalDAV with its calendar feature). > > which leads me into: have you considered the free version of Zimbra > 5.0 as > the basis/core of your setup? While it is more than a calendar > server, for > me at least, it has been almost maint free and just seems to work. > the > admin GUI is very nice. > > the free version supports all the main features save those more suited > for > corporate/enterptise clients (like Outlook/MAPI integration, > archiving, > mobile device sync, etc). I installed the RHEL5 version on CentOS 5.2 > and > have had no noticeable problems. > > the other thing I really like about Zimbra 5 over earlier versions is > they > dropped tomcat for Jetty and it, combined with its Ajax GUI features, > has > the best Web mail/calendar client I have come across. Blows Outlook > Web > Access (OWA) out of the water. > > FWIW > > mark > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > Behalf Of Perkins, Jerry > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:36 AM > To: NLUG Users Group > Subject: [nlug] Calendar > > > I am wanting to set up a calendar for our Church ( > http://oursaviorlcms.org/ ). So I am looking for some comments on > the > best way to go about this. > > Criteria: > 15 to 50 users. > Users can share calendars. > Has a number of group calendars > Two of the groups calendars can be exported to different web > sites. > Items on a personal calendar can be marked to show up on one or > more > of the group calendars. > Accessed from any platform. > Can be accessed from outside the Church network. > Database is stored on a network server. > Uses a standard base that, in time, we will not have to migrate to > something else. > > Current thoughts: > > Right now it looks like the way to go is with DEViCal ( > http://wiki.davical.org/w/Main_Page ), which is the server and creates > a > iCal file. This is accessed by a number of different clients ( > http://wiki.davical.org/w/CalDAV_Clients ) > > -- > Jerry Perkins > > Home Page http://www.jperkins.us/ > There are 10 kinds of people in the world > those who understand binary and those who don't. > > > > > -- Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
