Exchange replacement, again...

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> At 01:04 AM 12/13/2003 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> >   Can anyone recommend a method, how-to or general pointer to an 
> > application or collection of applications that would allow for providing 
> > similar services that Exchange does except on Linux? Obviously 
> > compatibility with MS Outlook would be nice however that is not a 
> > requirement is there is a windows client (Mozilla?) that can access these 
> > services.
> 
> A Linux-based replacement for Exchange has been done. It was described in 
> an issue of Linux Journal within the past year. I don't remember the 
> specific issue off-hand. The article explains what was done and may have 
> links to what you need to set it up.

The project site is thus:
  <http://kroupware.org>

The server combines:
 OpenLDAP (to store authentication information)
 PostFIX (MTA)
 Cyrus IMAP (IMAP server)
 Apache (for WEBDAV, administration, and, soon, webmail)
 ProFTPd (for upload of busy/free info)
 SASL (to perform authentication)

The client consists basically of KMail + Kontact; calendar management
comes in somewhere; I'm not certain precisely where.  (The authoritative
documentation is in German, and my German is very weak...)

While the current client software was written for KDE, nothing would
stop someone from implementing code for the corresponding GNOME
applications to have them "play well" with the pretty-standard Kroupware
server components.  Ditto for Mozilla.
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