On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 18:06 -0800, Carl Youngblood wrote: > I'm wondering if it's possible to use completely open-source technologies > speaking to Outlook to reproduce the experience of MS Exchange. I have > heard that you can use WebDAV and LDAP to replace the contact management and > shared calendar features in Outlook, and of course you can use IMAP for > email. Has anyone taken all these steps and can report on their > success/failure? Are there any other client apps out there that are good > enough for prime time that incorporate mail/calendar sharing/contact > management all in one package and run on windows? I have done some research > and found some candidates, all of which are in a very alpha phase of > development: > > Chandler > http://chandler.osafoundation.org/ > > Thunderbird with Lightning integrated cal/task features: > http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning > > Evolution for Windows > http://evolution-win32.sourceforge.net/ >
You said you want something that works with outlook, but then you cite other clients. So I'm not sure if you're looking to replace outlook or get a server that works with it, but here are some things I keep my eye on: http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/ http://opengroupware.org/en/index.html http://www.citadel.org/ http://kolab.org/ http://hula-project.org/Hula_Project http://zimbra.com/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
