Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems

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05. Email Servers

Chapter 5. Setting up an E-mail server

What can't you do in Linux?

Submitted by John Locke on Mon, 07/10/2006 - 23:45

Looks like IBM is going aggressively up against the Outlook/Exchange juggernaut. Several months ago, they made Domino, their mail server, free for any business who buys the licenses for the mail client, Notes. Now they're making Notes available for Linux. The Notes/Domino combination is more than just an email system--it's a complete database system, including calendaring, team rooms, private intranet features, addressing, and much more.

Zimbra, Joomla, What's in a name?

Submitted by John Locke on Thu, 09/08/2005 - 14:14

Names of open source projects are suddenly getting ridiculous. Two new names were just unveiled in the Open Source world: Zimbra, and Joomla. While the names may be silly and potentially off-putting, the projects themselves are compelling.

Joomla is simply a new name for a very popular web site management system that was called Mambo. Due to some political in-fighting between the company that sponsored Mambo and the core developers of the project, Mambo has now forked. For now, our bets are on the core developers, who have adopted the name Joomla for the project.

Hula, hula, can't wait for Hula!

Submitted by John Locke on Fri, 02/25/2005 - 00:21

Novell is sponsoring development of a new email/calendar server called Hula. This promises to be an Exchange killer, providing standards-based calendar sharing and storage using WebCal to share calendars and free/busy information. It's also a complete SMTP/IMAP/POP server with a built-in web interface, vacation messages, and eventually the ability to do server-side sorting and spam and virus filtering.

The project was announced last week, but they already have a working version, mainly because it's built upon Novell's NetMail product.

OpenExchange Installation on Mandrake

Submitted by John Locke on Thu, 09/23/2004 - 01:09

Frank Neugebauer has written a step-by-step set of instructions to install OpenExchange in Mandrake Linux. OpenExchange is a groupware server providing similar functionality to Microsoft Exchange, only with many more features.