Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> wading in to the quagmire that is groupware at the moment and wondered
> what experiences might be out there pls.
>
> Would prefer to use dovecot over cyrus as cyrus apprently doesn't do
> maildir.
...and you care because? The Cyrus spool has some performance
advantages over Maildir, and is otherwise indistinguishable within the
confines of the IMAP protocol.
If you want direct access to the spool without going through the IMAP or
POP server you should specify that, because most groupware solutions[1]
don't allow that.
> And a reasonably significant preference for mail/calendar sharing in
> T'Bird/whatever_calendar_extension XP clients. Though, for the right
> suite, I guess I could drop T'Bird.
>
> Does anyone have any elnlightenment pls?
Sure: Dovecot and Cyrus are not groupware solutions, and will not do
what you want.
Bynari Insight[2], which I don't recommend, will do a passable job, but
really isn't much fun to run.
Zimbra[3], which I do recommend, will do a good job. You might
encounter odd behaviour from some IMAP clients[4] since it doesn't
assign monotonically increasing UID values to email, but it is otherwise
good and standards compliant.
Kolab is reputed to be good, but I have never used it in production.
OpenGroupware was technically very good when I reviewed it some time
ago, but I have not used it in production or looked at it in several
years.
Of the web based solutions only the Horde framework ever seemed worth
the trouble to me, though phpGroupware and eGroupware have gotten a good
rap from people I know.
Building your own solution out of disparate parts /sounds/ easy, but it
isn't. The reason plenty of people pay the big bucks is that getting
all the components to play nicely is a lot of work.
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] As opposed to purely mail servers, since "groupware" traditionally
includes at least a calendar and address book.
[2] Commercial, sorry.
[3] Semi-commercial, sorry.
[4] At least Emacs/gnus is a bit confused by it; new message counts are
wacky, but the basics all work.
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