Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-12 Thread Marc Volovic
Yes - we're using Zimbra and some of my peers are using Zimbra or Scalix. Fine enough. I am actually quite happy with Zimbra - there are some annoyances (its NON-interop with Nokia e-series mobiles, eg) but otherwise it works very well. M - Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks,

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-12 Thread Marc Volovic
It is NOT too much a hassle to set up. All you need to do is: 1. Call the IT person into the room 2. Make a serious and intimidating face 3. Using a grave tone, say - Nir - you will install Scalix tomorrow. I want it done yesterday M - Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
You got it all wrong! Marc Volovic wrote: It is NOT too much a hassle to set up. All you need to do is: 1. Call the IT person into the room 2. Make a serious and intimidating face 3. Using a grave tone, say - Nir - you will install Scalix tomorrow. I want it done yesterday That's

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-12 Thread Moshe Leibovitch
Sure, but what interests me is the integration they offer between groupware applications and clients with current technology that support all of it. I'm looking for something similar to the addon Geva Zeichner wrote for Gmail. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2879 (You see, I

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-12 Thread Gil Freund
On 10/11/07, Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, anyone has real experience in using them in a real business environment? Yes. both with Scalix and Zimbra. Both are robust and offer a much richer web interface then Exchange. Both offer superior backup and restore mechanism then Exchange.

FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi list, My company, a rapidly growing startup (right now about 15 employees, probably around 50 within a year), is looking to upgrade our current mail server to a full fledged Exchange or similar solution. Before we're surrendering to M$, I'd like to know if anyone knows of a full FOSS solution

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Zimbra OS edition (if it still exists)? - yba On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Dvir Volk wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:31:05 +0200 From: Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Israeli Linux mailing list linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: FOSS alternative to Exchange Hi list, My company, a rapidly growing

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Lior Okman
You might want to checkout Scalix, OpenGroupware.org and openXchange, all of which have (more or less) all the features you mentioned. OpenXchange requires that you buy a connector for Outlook access, but it's pretty cheap. I think Scalix provides the Outlook connector for free, but

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Moshe Leibovitch
Any updates regarding Hebrew support for any of them? ( mainly composing editor supporting RTL ) On 11/10/2007 18:49, Lior Okman wrote: --snip-- Open-Xchange - http://www.open-xchange.com/header/community_area.html OpenGroupware.org - http://opengroupware.org/ Scalix -

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Dvir Volk
thanks, anyone has real experience in using them in a real business environment? On 10/11/07, Lior Okman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to checkout Scalix, OpenGroupware.org and openXchange, all of which have (more or less) all the features you mentioned. OpenXchange requires that

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Lior Okman
All of these support IMAP for regular mail, so you can use the mail client of your choice for email. Lior Moshe Leibovitch wrote: Any updates regarding Hebrew support for any of them? ( mainly composing editor supporting RTL ) On 11/10/2007 18:49, Lior Okman wrote: --snip--

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/10/2007, Lior Okman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenXchange requires that you buy a connector for Outlook access, but it's pretty cheap. Last time I tried to look at openXchange (in order to learn about an exchange alternative when I hoped I'll be asked for it) it looked a pretty

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Lior Okman
Amos Shapira wrote: Last time I tried to look at openXchange (in order to learn about an exchange alternative when I hoped I'll be asked for it) it looked a pretty complicated task to set it up. Is this true or did I get the wrong impression? And as Dvir asked already - does anyone here have

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/10/2007, Lior Okman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed all three, in order to test them. I haven't actually used them in production, or for very long in the test environment. Of them all, I would recommend Scalix, as the best documented and easiest to install. .. Hope this