Re: Exchange replacement
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:32PM +0100, antgel wrote:
>
>>Hans du Plooy wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've given up on trying to get a decent free OSS replacement for
>>>Exchange - it's simply not worth the time and effort for the avarage SME.
>>>
>>>What I am looking for is something that can do shared calendering and
>>>contacts, that Outlook can plug into - without a plugin. If I can get
>>>that, I can actually drop exchange, give the guys imap or pop with pst
>>>files sitting on the server. And use postfix - that would be the
>>>happiest day of my life...
>>
>>Take a look at sync4j. We (www.wayforth.co.uk) are currently working on
>>the sync4j groupdav connector, which is pretty exciting. However, it
>>does include an Outlook connector afaik.
>>
>>NB It's not in debian, and requires tomcat (also not in Debian).
>>
>
>
> Tomcat is in Debian. What is not in Debian the required JRE/JDK.
>
> $ apt-cache policy tomcat4
> tomcat4:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 4.1.31-3
I should have been more specific. Tomcat 5 (which sync4j requires) is
not in Debian. However, the .tar.gz is fine. I untarred it in /opt,
and it runs perfectly well out of the box (assuming the JDK is set up).
> Also, OpenGroupware.org is a possible candidate.
No it isn't as it requires the (commercial) ZideLook plugin to run with
Outlook, and the OP doesn't want Outlook plugins.
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