[Cialug] E-mail system suggestions

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I wonder.. does it have to be *one* product, or  just  *appear* to the
end users to be one product?  Are they really just saying "integrated
email calendar,etc.?



On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:55 -0500, david l goodrich wrote:
> 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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