[ubuntu-uk] Anyone ever tried kolab on feisty

[Dave Walker]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:20 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Andy,
> It will be for up to 10 users, on a new dell poweredge 1900 with 1.5TB
> drive, quad core processor etc so capacity is not a problem.
> 
> Features; moving away from an exchange box and were planning on using just
> imap however I would like to check out what other options are out there on
> the kolab side etc, so really looking at mail, contacts and calendars.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
<SNIP>

I haven't tried Kolab, it does look functional and under active
development.

However, I have used Zimbra and would recommend it - but avoid Feisty,
as it's not officially supported.  Dapper works well tho.

Andy mentioned Bongo, although it's coming on well - it's not yet
stable, so maybe avoid it on production systems until it is.  One
advantage of Bongo is that the interface is simple and doesn't include
the 'bloat' that Zimbra offers.  However, it does use all it's own tools
- including full replacement for postfix/exim.  If you want to see a
demo, email me off-list.

You mentioned you were considering just IMAP, so possibly not groupware
- but email only  (Seems Kolab uses IMAP for calender aswell - but
dependant on proprietary connector for the client).  In this case, I
quite like "Roundcube" as a web-based email IMAP client.  This allows
you to use a standard email stack, (Postfix/exim4, dovecot, etc).

Strangely, there seems to have been very little development with a
system that is calender only - supporting both a nice interface, and
caldav/webdav.  There is the dated (but stable)
'phpMyCalendar' (http://phpmycalendar.sourceforge.net/screenshots_en.html) .  However, i was watching Monket (http://www.monket.net/cal/#top) which did appear to be coming on well - but development seems to have paused.

Hope this helps,

Kind Regards,
Dave Walker
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