On Tuesday 30 December 2008 7:21:47 pm Alvin ONeal wrote: > Here's a slightly different thought which may be more or less complicated > that what you want: > > 1 gmail account in, several out. > > > Create the account [email protected] > Have all the mail go to that account > Have that account forward to personal accounts [email protected], > [email protected] > Have the personal accounts use the same outbound address [email protected] > Have all sent mail cc the primary account > > You can use pop or imap to your liking and even a different domain name > than gmail. > > AJ ONeal IMAP is a great tool for simultaneous *message* storage and access. It's a *terrible* tool for simultaneous Addressbook/ Contact/ Calendar access and storage (in fact, it simply doesn't do it except in heavily bastardized circumstances e.g. Bynari Insight server and Zimbra).
Before anyone gets all cranky that i dissed Zimbra, check out their underlying architecture; they're simply asking IMAP to do things it was *never* designed to do, and therefore breaking standards and protocols all over the place. I've trialled just about every available groupware system out there: Kolab, Zimbra, Open Groupware (don't even get me started on that spaghetti coded piece of crap), Exchange (ducking the rotten fruit), and more that I can't remember off the top of my head. I use Scalix here and in most of my client implementations. Here's why: If you have a small site (<10 users), Scalix is free (as in beer... it's only about 95% FOSS). Scalix offers killer webmail, that's all AJAXey and purty. Shared Contacts, Calendars, group address lists, system directory, etc. Shared everything *regardless of client* (Try that, Kolab, PHPGroupware, etc. etc. etc.). That means your shared folders show up in your IMAP client (Evolution on Linux, Thunderbird, etc.), AND in your webmail, AND (if you care to use it) Outlook. All flavors. Scalix easy to back up and recoverable in a disaster scenario (try that, Exchange!). Scalix delivers *push* message notifications to Outlook users (meaning Real time, as it comes in to the server, not once per 'n' minutes polled mode; try that, Zimbra). Scalix (warning: vaporware alert) *will* offer *NATIVE* Activesync for mobile devices Q1 2009. I use Scalix in the following configurations here in the office: Windows Vista, OL2K7, Scalix connector for Outlook Mandriva Linux 2008.1, Evolution 2.4, Scalix connect for Evolution I'm typing this in Kontact, the KDE PIM wrapper around KMail, against Scalix IMAP. IE7 to Scalix webmail FF2 and 3 on Windows and Linux to Scalix webmail Scalix mobile (native, low real estate, stripped HTML for tiny browsers) on my Samsung SCH-i760 WM5 smartphone from Verizon (can you reboot me now?). All work very consistently and with a minimum of fussing. The catch? Scalix is a pig. It's all full of java and eats Gb of server RAM for snacks. It also likes really fast hard drives (read: SCSI or SAS) although we run our installation on an Adaptec SATA-II RAID controller here and it works passably quickly. Interestingly, it hardly touches the servers dual quad-core E5405 CPUs... Shoulda put the extra dough into faster drives, but I knew that already :) Ok, there's my $0.02 (or more as usual). Cheers, Rubin -- Rubin Bennett rbTechnologies, LLC 80 Carleton Boulevard East Montpelier, VT 05651 (802)223-4448 http://thatitguy.com "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
