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[Al Gordon]

On 9/28/05, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> You may also want to take a look at open-xchange
> (http://mirror.open-xchange.org), a real free alternative to MS
> Exchange.
>
> A commercial connector for outlook is available, but you may also get
> it to work with Dolox (http://www.syn-3.nl) or Sync4j's outlook client
> (http://www.sync4j.org/)
>
> Be warned that it's not that easy for beginners to get OX installed.
>
> There are however lots of nice howto's available in the documentation
> section (http://www.open-xchange.org/oxwiki/OXInstallations)
>
> Before installing, you should take a look at the online demo to get an
> idea of the possibilities
> (http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/online.htm)

Zimbra - Not native to Debian or Ubuntu yet, but it looks promising:
http://www.zimbra.com/

I've not been following this thread too closely, but I have noticed
that there have been some posts to the effect of "just install
squirrelmail".  I think that a lot of MS Exchange web client users are
going to be disappointed with Squirrel, when you compare them
side-by-side, as far as the features and overall "feel" of the app
goes.  As far as the price, Squirrel wins hands-down. ;)

I've not gotten it installed yet (working on it today, if I can find
the time) but Zimbra looks interesting, and full-featured enough to
compete against Exchange and win.  It's Java-backended, from what I
can tell from docs, along with having its own integrated postfix,
openldap, etc.

I'm not 100% behind advocating it until I use it myself, but I'm
pretty excited about seeing how well it actually works as a
full-fledged messaging platform, as opposed to "just another webmail
interface".

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  -- AL --