[Cialug] E-mail system suggestions

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Due to the recent retirement of the only person who fully understands 
the baroque e-mail system we have here at Drake[*], something better 
needs to be built. Naturally, due to the ease of integration and better 
support i'd prefer an open source solution running on Linux. So i've 
started researching what is available. Any suggestions on projects i 
should look at? So far i want to test eGroupWare and Zimbra.

The official requirements are an "integrated system covering e-mail, 
campus calendar, address books/contacts and cell phone/PDA downloads". 
Why they want all those unrelated things in one monolithic product, i 
don't know. But there it is. I expect whatever we go with will also 
have to have some form of commercial support plan available as well.

[*] For those of you familiar with Drake, yes we're still running PMDF
    on VMS on an old Alpha.

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Dan Ramaley                            Dial Center 118, Drake University
Network Programmer/Analyst             2407 Carpenter Ave
+1 515 271-4540                        Des Moines IA 50311 USA