Here's what I use and it's really good: OpenGroupware http://www.opengroupware.org/ other useful resource for OGo http://www.exchangekiller.com http://www.skyrix.de/en/ To use outlook you would need to pay for this piece go to the skyrix site for more info... I actually use Postfix which was not difficult to implement (I moved from Sendmail to Postfix and there was actually a script that converted my existing emails...) and use cyrus-imapd. I also have Spamassassin implemented too... In fact I'm using it right now. Some features: Contacts Projects and tasks Companies Resources (eg meeting rooms can be made I haven't used this yet) Scheduling (calendars) Document uploading/downloading sync with palm pilot epoz editor (for editing emails) You can create groups and assign people to groups, provide authorizations to groups or users on projects, etc You can create projects, and put tasks in projects (or not), assign people to tasks, etc Although I haven't used this piece, it's supposed to interface with Ximian's Evolution and I the last I checked they were working on connecting to outlook. I use mine via the web browser (I implented SSL certs)which gives me secure remote access anywhere(don't have to open up your POP3 or IMAPD ports). The backend is PostgreSQL. You might want to use Whitebox linux or centos which is an open sourced distribution of Red Hat, but it should not matter. The documents are uploaded/downloaded via the web browser so you don't have to worry about SMB shares. Documents are associated with projects... I transitioned from SquirrelMail using Sendmail to OpenGroupware and haven't looked back. I've also looked at other Open Source tools in the past but this seems the best. For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have received a request from a friend of mine to provide him (and his > 10 people company) with a Linux based server that also gives them a > group ware solution. > > I was initially thinking of Lotus Notes, but it refuses to run under > Fedora and doesn't play nicely under RH 9 either (I have been testing 4 > different Linux-en all day long). > > I googled around and didn't come across anything that looks remotely > promising. > > Here are the requirements: > (1) Server based email > (2) Server based calendaring for all their people so that they can > schedule meetings and know when all the other staff members are > available > (3) Server based document storage > > Their workstations are Windows XP, they have a number of business > applications for which there are no equivalent Linux versions. > > The solutions I have in mind are: > > for (1): sendmail/cyrus-imap/procmail; > the problem here is that there is no easy way to add rules for procmail > in a way an end-user understands mail filters. They can just about grasp > the concept of mail filtering when they use POP3 (POP3 is not an option > here, though because they want to be able to access their server mail > from anywhere) > > for (2): I have not found any solid open-source calendar tool for this. > > for (3): I can make shared directories available through SMB but that > just moves the Word/Excel/PDF/whatever-else-format-file chaos from the > workstation to the server. Trying to find a specific document amongst > the 1000s of arbitrarily names files is near impossible. > > > Any open-source solutions that run under Linux (FC3/FC4 preferred) are > welcome. > > Best regards, > Chris > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
