[KLUG Members] RE: Members digest, Vol 1 #508 - 7 msgs

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:33:19 -0400 (EDT)


>HPopenmail was developed as an Exchange replacement, but I have a foggy
>memory that development stalled a couple years ago.  

They sold it to Samsung.  It is now "Samsung Connect".  Samsung 
***CLAIMS*** they will continue development.  So whatever you think the 
word of a multi-national is worth....

>If you want
>something that takes no thinking whatsoever to install, then use esmith
>firewall.  It has qmail/IMP that allows IMAP, POP access and a little
>more (but no groupware).  You could try the
>Qmail-Vmailmgr-Courier-SquirrelMail combo.  You can get it as a

This doesn't provide nearly the functionality of Exchange: calandering, 
scheduling, etc...

>monolithic package that is pretty straight forward to install.
>PHPGroupware also uses squirrelmail (blah), requires you to already have
>your mail prog setup, BUT it is extensible and has other progs to drop
>in like calendering, chat...

These are frontends however, not backends.  Not that there is anything 
wrong with them.

>Your choice depends on what you can live with (instability or lack
>features) and what you can't do without (level of integration,
>stability, security..).

Yep.