Topic: exchange-server-clone for SME

[Klaus Eckert]

Hello everybody

i know that this was discussed eralier in this forum.
the "search" did not help me very well with my question.

so i ask again:
is there a powerful exchange-server-clone for SME or at least linux?
i had a look at "exchange4linux", "insight manager" and "samsung contact server".
but it seems that none of them is a real exchange-clone.

any other suggestions?
any hints?

please, forbear from telling me to use M$ exchange...

cheers klaus

[Del]

Hi Klaus,
Try http://www.opengroupware.org
this address will take you to a howto for SME
http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo@lists.e-smith.org/msg11934.html
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Del

[Michiel]

> i had a look at "exchange4linux", "insight manager" and
> "samsung contact server".
> but it seems that none of them is a real exchange-clone.

What features are you looking for that are not in one of these alternatives?

[Klaus Eckert]

does any of them combine all exchange-functions?
we need email, public folders, private calendar, public calendar, private adressbook, public adressbook.

does anybody have experiences with one of them?
are there server-manager-panels for one of them?

cheers klaus

[Tim Litwiller]

The link on that page is out of date - if was impossible for me to resolve all the problems running opengroupware on sme 5.6 so it has been removed.  Currently I am playing with merging sme 6 and fedora so that I will have a moderm linux base to run opengroupware on and still have the ease of configuration for a client to add users etc.

[Stephen Sloan]

You might want to check out Bynari Connector, seems to do what you want.

http://www.bynari.net/index.php?id=500

[guestHH]

I guess it's time to take a look at www.phpgroupware.org

it has all you want and more.

There are knwon installation of 2k+ users

Regards,
guestHH

[Jes Brockhoff]

See :

http://vanhees.homeip.net/modules/indexer/5.6/HowTo/HowtoOpengroupware_SME_EN.html

[Klaus Eckert]

PHPGroupware is not what we want.
we need to connect with M$ Outlook to the Server.

cheers klaus

[Jeff Khoury]

Klaus,

I know you said not to say it... You, my friend, need Exchange.

A free, open-source, complete replacement for exchange has not yet been fully implemented.  There are some promising projects, but they're not there yet.

I am always the first to try to endorse an open solution, but there are times when you want exactly the feature set of a closed-source product, but it just doesn't exist in the "free" world.

[Boris]

Klaus,
Take a look at SUSE openexchange server.
Not free, but cheaper then M$ Exchange and supposedly by far more superior.
I've tested previous version and loved it.
Ver 4.1 just came out and should be even better.

[Rob Wellesley]

check out www.vaita.com - US$50 per seat OsaSync Pro


rob