[SLL] Citadel & Outlook Calendaring

[Matt Beland]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Chris Fischer wrote:

> Matt Beland wrote:
>> On Jan 10, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Eric Kahklen wrote:
>>> Is anyone currently using the Citadel **Mail Server in  
>>> production?  Also, has anyone found a way to get collaborative  
>>> calendaring working with Citadel?  Their website says it will be  
>>> supported in the future.  I am really hoping to migrate off of  
>>> Exchange vs. "upgrade" to the next version in the next few months.
>>
>> I don't know about Citadel, but the best I've found at this point  
>> is the Zimbra collaborative server. It's not perfect, but it comes  
>> a lot closer than any of the others so far, and it has an Exchange  
>> connector to allow Windows users to transition relatively easily.
>>
> What parts are less than perfect? I ask because I'm starting to look  
> at Zimbra for a client of mine. Also, what version are you running?

Fairly current version, one or two minor revisions back from the most  
recent (I think; I don't have direct access to that server ATM.) Most  
of the issues are fairly minor - scheduling resources in recurring  
meetings doesn't work properly, the Mac OS X (Mail and iCal) connector  
is pretty bad - about like early Beta or late Alpha in functionality -  
and although although scheduling is quite good, public / shared  
calendars appear to be completely absent. Our Windows users are  
reasonably happy, Linux users don't have a problem, Mac users are  
discontented but accepting of the functionality.

Bill's criticism's are also on target.

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Matt Beland
matt at rearviewmirror.org