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Does anything like Exchange (but free and preferably open source) actually exist?

by koenigdavidmj 15y ago

protomyth 15y ago
What features do you need?
- koenigdavidmj 15y ago
  Nothing fancy. Just hosted calendar, address book, and email. I could roll something with LDAP for the address book, and any of the usual email-only servers (Sendmail plus UW IMAP, or more modern equivalents), but that would be a bit administration-heavy.
  - protomyth 15y ago
    OS X Server will do that (pay), I've been doing the OpenBSD / Postfix / Dovecot / OpenLDAP / WebDAV thing. Still not sure on the whole calendar thing. It really isn't that bad once you get it setup and make sure to keep up with the updates.
    - sivers 15y ago
      Would you be up for sharing your experience setting it up? Whether a blog post, an e-book, or whatever - I'll bet there are some people who would love to do the same, but use the experience of someone who's already got it working together.
      - protomyth 15y ago
        sure, it will be a couple of days - I am working with 4.9 this weekend / next week and it has a different setup (they added rc.d to OpenBSD) - I will do a step-by-step next week. I am also trying to do my spam stuff a little different.
switch007 15y ago
Check out Zimbra.
- BlazingFrog 15y ago
  Do you have any personal experience with Zimbra? Isn't it too feature-rich, and thus overly complicated, for home use?
  - patrickgzill 15y ago
    You will want to run it in a VM to separate the service from the rest of your system, if possible. It needs very little CPU but, should have about 2GB of RAM due to a big Java component, and because it periodically kicks off programs to clean things up every few minutes. A bit of a pain to set up, but once set up it works quite well. It might have too many features - if you want something a lot simpler, look for "qmail toaster" or a good guide to setting up Postfix.
- eropple 15y ago
  Use it at work. I miss Exchange.
warp 15y ago
Check out Zarafa, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software) (I have no experience with it myself)

Does anything like Exchange (but free and preferably open source) actually exist?

protomyth 15y ago

What features do you need?

koenigdavidmj 15y ago
Nothing fancy. Just hosted calendar, address book, and email. I could roll something with LDAP for the address book, and any of the usual email-only servers (Sendmail plus UW IMAP, or more modern equivalents), but that would be a bit administration-heavy.
- protomyth 15y ago
  OS X Server will do that (pay), I've been doing the OpenBSD / Postfix / Dovecot / OpenLDAP / WebDAV thing. Still not sure on the whole calendar thing. It really isn't that bad once you get it setup and make sure to keep up with the updates.
  - sivers 15y ago
    Would you be up for sharing your experience setting it up? Whether a blog post, an e-book, or whatever - I'll bet there are some people who would love to do the same, but use the experience of someone who's already got it working together.
    - protomyth 15y ago
      sure, it will be a couple of days - I am working with 4.9 this weekend / next week and it has a different setup (they added rc.d to OpenBSD) - I will do a step-by-step next week. I am also trying to do my spam stuff a little different.

switch007 15y ago

Check out Zimbra.

BlazingFrog 15y ago
Do you have any personal experience with Zimbra? Isn't it too feature-rich, and thus overly complicated, for home use?
- patrickgzill 15y ago
  You will want to run it in a VM to separate the service from the rest of your system, if possible. It needs very little CPU but, should have about 2GB of RAM due to a big Java component, and because it periodically kicks off programs to clean things up every few minutes. A bit of a pain to set up, but once set up it works quite well. It might have too many features - if you want something a lot simpler, look for "qmail toaster" or a good guide to setting up Postfix.
eropple 15y ago
Use it at work. I miss Exchange.

warp 15y ago

Check out Zarafa, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software) (I have no experience with it myself)