On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:56 -0700, Kurt Wolf wrote:
> http://www.hula-project.org
>
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it is however far less ambitious than the Horde project. There are a
number of lighter weight webmail things like squirrelmail/neo etc.
Horde uses standard protocols - standard tools for most everything - and
unbelievable flexibility. You could run the entire setup with
preferences stored in LDAP and avoid the use of an SQL server if you
desired.
Moreover, the fact that Horde uses standard protocols means that you can
continue to use your regular mail client application to access your mail
and see the same mail (IMAP) - use your email or address book
applications to see your own and shared LDAP address books - use your
calendar program to access your calendars (iCal type stuff) and even
publish your free/busy URL's to off system users. For example, the
'turba' program is the easiest program I have ever used to import
contact data into an LDAP data store. Of course setting up LDAP with
ACL's, indexing etc. to accommodate this is a rather complicated
process.
To top it off, there are so many other modules that are available to
extend the usage of the system, such as a wiki, filtering integration
with procmail or sieve (simplifying construction of filters for users
creating the filters), a mini-version for handhelds/wap, time
accounting, forums, project management and more...
<
http://www.horde.org/source/modules.php> gives you a better idea of the
breadth of the project.
Of course this flexibility and integration comes at a cost - the cost of
making it work. I don't think lightweight would be a reasonable
description of the project. But of course, the premise is that it is
more in line with feature expectations of Novell's Groupwise server or
Microsoft Exchange Server and those aren't lightweight either. Then
again, you don't have to pay $100+ per client license and you don't have
to purchase other server software (i.e. Windows 2003 Server, Novell NDS)
either.
Craig
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