[SLL] Kerio Mail server

[Glenn Stone]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:35:44AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>Why does a mail suite need a sales person or need to be sold at all?
>Have you looked at the free alternatives?  There are many that offer
>various feature sets, like tying into ldap for shared address books,
>webemail, calendaring.

Is there one that I can just yum install (or apt-get install) and have it
walk me through configuration as part of postinstall and when I get the
prompt back have it be at least minimally functional?  No?  

That's why you need a salescritter.  

This is the one, last, final straw that's keeping us from World Domination,
is that we do NOT have good integration between calendaring/resource
scheduling/shared address books and the rest of email.  Email itself we've
been able to do - well - for a decade.  Office (wp/spreadsheet/presentation)
we own, thanks to Sun.  Web browser?  Pick one.  Pick several.  Calendaring?
umm, err, ahh, well.... 

Sure, Jesse, it's easy *for you*.  But for a harried solo sysadmin who may
not have beaucoup experience nor does he have the guys as wrote it on his IM
contacts list?  Not so much.  And until we take Exchange by the horns, flip
it, and hogtie it and brand it "0wn3d", We. Will. Never. Own. the Desktop.

SUSE had the thing pretty well mastered with SLOX, and promptly buried it
when they started pussyfooting around with the Borg.  (It was a
Tomcat-powered BEASTIE, but it would run on the box you were running
Exchange on, so who cared?  I did, but I'm a Scot...)  Nobody else has
stepped up.  

And if this little tootle tossed off on a Monday before bagels turns out to
be the clarion call that lights a fire under either Red Hat or Canonical (or
both! competition is good!) to get this done, I want credit.  :)

-- Glenn