[Cialug] E-mail system suggestions

[david l goodrich]

On Fri, August 31, 2007 9:19 am, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> 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.

Because exchange does it, and that makes clueless users happy.
  --david


> 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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