[SLL] Groupware servers

[daniel.lathrop at gmail.com]

No experience with it, but funambol (funambol.com) married to any of
the usual suspects seems like a good solution.

It uses syncml to do the gluing piece of outlook/exchange


On 12/12/08, Glenn Stone <technoshaman at liawol.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:53:41AM -0800, Jules Agee wrote:
>>Sounds to me like the best solution for people who want/need Exchange
>>features is still... Exchange. I've been using Cyrus/Postfix exclusively
>>for years now, but we will probably be moving some of our Cyrus accounts
>>over to Exchange in 2009.
>
> Actually, if you've got a bunch of Lookout addicts that are tied to their
> MSFT-only desktops, calendars and all sorts of weirdo attachments, the best
> thing you can do is slap a Postfix/SpamAssassin/ClamAV box in front of it
> and call it good.  You won't save any budget money, but you will save time
> and effort dealing with spam and viruses... and if you can document you
> stopped a zero-day exploit dead in its tracks (by virtue of it being a file
> type inapropriate to be sending, e.g. pif or exe), you can become a minor
> hero.  (You do have to *market* that...)  And then you can start sliding
> other Free Software in...
>
> But, yeah, the whole "replace Exchange" thingy kinda got dropped... oddly
> enough, just about the time SUSE and MSFT started making goo-goo eyes at
> each other.
>
> -- Glenn, justifiably chagrinned.
>


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