I agree calendar sharing is a missing features under GNU/Linux. However I recently tested two interesting email server platform for Linux. - Zimbra Open Source Edition. - Hula (the open source edition of the former Novell NetMail). Both are fully supported under Ubuntu (6.06 at least)
Zimbra provides more features and it is a wonderful products but is not release under GPL. Hula is still beta but was based on the rock solid Netmail platform. It has been released under GPL. I would love that the community invests more efforts into Hula (seems that Novell totally stops supporting the project) and makes it come to universe. I think it is a good basis. Novell formerly planned to merge Hula with iFolder (GPL as well) to provide a collaborative solution for the community but I don't read any recent news about this. 2007/10/11, Dave Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Guys, > before I make a wiki page about calendar sharing, I was wondering if > anyone has any other recent experiences with Calendar sharing with > ubuntu? from the server side of course. > > I have one I would like to share and think that it represents something > we will be offering as a calendar sharing solution as an alternative to > exchange for our SME clients. > > I have a client who already uses Thunderbird and courier imap. They > lacked internal facing calendar sharing and I hadn't checked the state > of play recently. > So I installed lightning (the thunderbird add-in for calendaring) and > setup Really Simple CalDAV Store: > http://rscds.sourceforge.net/ > > It was pretty easy (they provide an apt source) to get going and seeing > as I already had postgres for their CRM (centric) worked out pretty well. > > So with a little amount of effort (just configuration) I was able to > have calendars all shared and updated in a read write fashion from > Thunderbird. Access control is handled by the RSCDS web interface and > works pretty well, though the group specification needs some work... > > A few points about the solution: > * Lightning is under heavy development now and will be even nicer by > Hardy release time > * RSCDS needs more authentication options. I am happy to contribute > coder time to make PAM-auth happen, as this would let us tie into other > authentication schemes. The current auth means you have yet another silo > of user/passes. > * RSCDS is begging to be integrated in to Ebox or some other web > interface for easy access (not that I use or have tried ebox) > * I think the biggest roadblock to the whole linux-groupware-problem is > actually Outlook, so I wanted a solution whereby people did not have to > use it. Thunderbird/IMAP/RSCDS/Webmail(squirrelmail) will get most > people so far its now a great combo. > > I have tried other shared calendaring solutions on Linux servers with > windows clients. None worked anywhere near as well as this combination, > and the most sophisticated (Zimbra, Scalix, etc) a really Outlook > servers... not interested :) You see the big picture here is that people > need to stop using Windows on the desktop... and freeing them of Outlook > is an important first step, as a whole swathe of users are tied to it. > > > The only reason to use squirrelmail at present is the large number of > plugins - change password, Seive rules and/or vacation are important > user facing admin functions. Aside from that, squirrelmail kinda blows > for large mailboxes. Its getting better and I prefer v-webmail for my > inbox and folders (just don't get the plugins) > > Shared calendaring is here people! lets do it :) > > > Let me know what you think... > > Dave > > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam >
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