On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
As for mail, I will have to look at it. I looked at Zarafa a couple years ago, and can't remember why I rejected it.
I haven't looked that recently - the older versions used postfix with cyrus or dovecot - and you could do a certain amount of fiddling with the underlying configs yourself.
I have a postfix/mysql/... server built by following something like this:
http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/courier-mysql-fedora-12
I like postfix and mysql. I have been working on this today, and it looks like most of the pieces are now there. the postfix built in Centos 6 is showing mysql support, so I am hoping I do not have to build it from srpm, as in the past. I have a few more steps to complete for testing this out.
I think ClearOS uses LDAP under everything including your initial user list which is something that made it sound attractive - and should make it easy to have multiple servers with the same user base. However I haven't needed it enough to set one up completely. I used to use several SME servers in remote offices (and generally was comfortable giving the local office administrator the root password to add users and shares where I would never have done that with a normal linux distro). But, due to business changes, now headquarters is elsewhere and I'm in a small remote office... I did help a friend set up a couple of the previous ClearOS versions for home and small office use and they are still going a couple of years later.