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From: "Keith Keller" kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 11:33:17 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?
On 2018-07-19, Mark Rousell mark.rousell@signal100.com wrote:
Well said. I feel that too many people today have forgotten (or, more likely, never learned) these lessons from history. People give away their personal and supposedly private information too easily and, I feel certain, will come to regret it (some already have come to regret it).
While I agree with the above, it doesn't really address Johnny's question, which is which open source calendaring projects can compete with Google calendar for users' ease of use? If I give my users Zimbra, and they hate it, then what? For simple email use, there are plenty of clients which can talk IMAP/SMTP to a linux server, but the options for calendaring (and ''groupware'' in general) are much sparser.
It's a hard question, and each organization needs to weigh their privacy concerns against their users' requirements.
--keith
-- kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
Zimbra's calendaring component is also a CALDav compliant server. Users can also share their calendars either via the zimbra web client(public, or restricted to an email address with a password), or exporting the calendar to an ICS file. CALDav compliant calendar clients like Apples calendar app on Mac and iOS can subscribe or connect to the zimbra server using its https://zimbra.example.com address. The Zimbra web client interface for using and managing calendars is just as easy to use as googles calendars.
David.