Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
>
>
>>>> Reply on 29-11-2006 11:12:55 <<<
>
>> Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
>> > Yes, that's a sad story. SLOX (SuSE Linux OpenXchange) was very
>> > promising. When SuSE got bought by Novell, there were far to many
>> > Messaging services around (netmail, groupwise, slox), so slox had
> to
>> go
>> > away.
>> >
>> > Hula is, let's say, I child under the projects and when I looked
> at
>> it,
>> > was not very evolved. I don't know how much changed in this time.
> But
>> > when comparing Hula and OpenXchange with Zimbra [1] for example,
> you
>> > probably see why they disappear and don't get that much attention
>> > anymore.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Dominique
>> >
>> > [1]http://www.zimbra.com/ (online demo also available)
>>
>> Not really. Being someone who has to use Zimbra (just for IMAP at
> the
>> moment) I can say that you don't want to use Zimbra as IMAP service.
>> I haven't analyzed it yet but it seems that it only allows one open
>> IMAP
>> session per user. That means that folder switching takes ages.
>> It doesn't support ACLs for IMAP and it doesn't support IMAP IDLE as
> it
>> seems.
>>
>
> Wolfgang,
>
> Thanks for this information :-) At the moment, I was just looking
> around and zimbra looked very promising. At this time, I'm just using
> horde/imp, which is nice.. but lacks some features and usability.
>
> Is your Zimbra configured to use a 3rd party IMAP or is it using the
> one shipped with Zimbra?
>
> So.. if you were me, that would have to decide what System to choose,
> (for private purpose, so it has to be free) for let's say, 10 accounts
> (unlimited size)... what would you suggest?
>
> Dominique
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For private use I use Squirrelmail and either UW Imap or Dovecot. Last
time I looked Hula was also quite nice and easy to setup with few
dependencies. On the downside Novell announced today they are dropping
their sponsorship of Hula by pulling their full-time programmers so who
knows when version 1 will now be released, I've been waiting for over a
year.

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