> Because it's been about a year since this last came up on the SLUG list,
> and because I have a need for something like this soon, I'd be
> interested to hear what people are using forgroupwarethese days.
> I'd like something that can share contacts / calendars / tasks across a
> fairly mixed environment - evolution, thunderbird and sunbird/lightning
> on Windows andLinux, and Outlook 2k3.
> We initially considered just exporting calendars to a WebDAV share. This
> seems to be a workable solution, but I have my doubts about how well
> a .htaccess scheme to allow access would scale to an office of around 40
> users.
> On a similar note, CalDAV or GroupDAV look like attractive solutions to
> drop in to an existing environment as well. But from some brief
> googling, it seems that Outlook support for either of these protocols
> are limited at best. Has anybody had any success syncing Outlook with
> one of these servers?

Checkout http://www.opengroupware.org

It's lead developer is the author of the GroupDAV spec.  GroupDAV
works for Thunderbird's addressbook and a GroupDAV connector is
available for Evolution.  A commercial plugin is available to connect M
$-Outlook to OpenGroupware;  it is a real MAPI provider not some sync
thing, and it supports offline mode.  I believe there is also someone
looking at creating a GroupDAV plugin for Outlook -
http://mail.opengroupware.org/pipermail/users/2007-May/017778.html

Allot of exciting things happening over there.

If you are more interested in AJAX glitz than deep functionality check
out the related SOGo (Scalable OGo) project.

> I've also looked at Scalix in the best, and like what I see. My only
> issue with it so far is that I'd prefer to keep my existing mail
> infrastructure. Is it possible for it to co-exist with an existing IMAP
> service?

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