[SLL] Citadel & Outlook Calendaring

[Chris Fischer]

Matt Beland wrote:
>
> 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.) 
Sorry, I meant if it was the open source version or the network edition.
> 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.
I think shared calendars functionality is supposed to be in the 5.x 
release. At least that's the sense I got by briefly looking at a forum 
post from Jan. of last year.
>
> Bill's criticism's are also on target.
>
Thanks much for the feedback, that helps.

Regards,

Chris