I recently switched to using Thunderbird for my email and installed the Lightning calendar add-on. Now all I need is a remote calendar server. I just need a simple server to support a few personal calendars and a shared calendar. Any recommendations for a CentOS / Apache based calendar server?
on 5-11-2009 8:09 AM Bowie Bailey spake the following:
I recently switched to using Thunderbird for my email and installed the Lightning calendar add-on. Now all I need is a remote calendar server. I just need a simple server to support a few personal calendars and a shared calendar. Any recommendations for a CentOS / Apache based calendar server?
Do you think you might want webmail also? If so, the Horde apps from the extras repo will do it for you.
Scott Silva wrote:
on 5-11-2009 8:09 AM Bowie Bailey spake the following:
I recently switched to using Thunderbird for my email and installed the Lightning calendar add-on. Now all I need is a remote calendar server. I just need a simple server to support a few personal calendars and a shared calendar. Any recommendations for a CentOS / Apache based calendar server?
Do you think you might want webmail also? If so, the Horde apps from the extras repo will do it for you.
I was looking for something a bit more lightweight than that, but it does have a nicer webmail interface than what we have now, so it may be worth investigating.
Scott Silva wrote:
Do you think you might want webmail also? If so, the Horde apps from the extras repo will do it for you.
Hi, Scott,
I've been "evaluating" Zimbra for a bit now, as it seemed that configuration and set up of Horde was kind of complicating. I wasn't aware that it was in the repo, though, so perhaps I'll give it another shot.
Are there any docs that you are aware of to getting it up and running using the RPMs?
I know the Horde website has documentation on installing things, but they seem custom to installing it manually and compiling packages, etc. Honestly, their documentation seems lacking from a configuration stand point.
Thanks for any input!
Regards, Max
on 5-11-2009 2:31 PM Max Hetrick spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
Do you think you might want webmail also? If so, the Horde apps from the extras repo will do it for you.
Hi, Scott,
I've been "evaluating" Zimbra for a bit now, as it seemed that configuration and set up of Horde was kind of complicating. I wasn't aware that it was in the repo, though, so perhaps I'll give it another shot.
Are there any docs that you are aware of to getting it up and running using the RPMs?
I know the Horde website has documentation on installing things, but they seem custom to installing it manually and compiling packages, etc. Honestly, their documentation seems lacking from a configuration stand point.
Thanks for any input!
Regards, Max
I actually used the tarball from the horde site. If you untar it under your webroot, it is pretty easy. I have it authing through imp, which auths through IMAP from my local users. It was a lot easier then the rpm's in the extra, but you can't beat the ease of just "yum groupinstall "Horde Apps"
Scott Silva wrote:
I actually used the tarball from the horde site. If you untar it under your webroot, it is pretty easy. I have it authing through imp, which auths through IMAP from my local users. It was a lot easier then the rpm's in the extra, but you can't beat the ease of just "yum groupinstall "Horde Apps"
Cool. I'll have to check it out again then.
We're currently running SquirrelMail here for webmail. While it's fine, it does only one thing, and that's e-mail. We really need shareable calendars, contact manager, and e-mail client all in one.
Currently our backend is Postfix and dovecot. SquirrelMail connects through IMAP then. My boss wants me to keep the backend in place, so if Horde can connect through IMAP to pull mail, that would be ideal.
I've been using Zimbra on my own e-mail account at work as a test, but the only thing that I don't like about Zimbra is that it cannot connect to anyone else with IMAP. It expects to be the full-blown mail server, not a secondary type system. So I had to set it up and jump through some hoops to get it talk, forward, and deliver mail, etc. from Postfix.
I had looked at Horde some time ago, but brushed it off. I think I'll check it out though again and get it up and running.
Thanks! Max
on 5-12-2009 4:24 AM Max Hetrick spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
I actually used the tarball from the horde site. If you untar it under your webroot, it is pretty easy. I have it authing through imp, which auths through IMAP from my local users. It was a lot easier then the rpm's in the extra, but you can't beat the ease of just "yum groupinstall "Horde Apps"
Cool. I'll have to check it out again then.
We're currently running SquirrelMail here for webmail. While it's fine, it does only one thing, and that's e-mail. We really need shareable calendars, contact manager, and e-mail client all in one.
Currently our backend is Postfix and dovecot. SquirrelMail connects through IMAP then. My boss wants me to keep the backend in place, so if Horde can connect through IMAP to pull mail, that would be ideal.
I've been using Zimbra on my own e-mail account at work as a test, but the only thing that I don't like about Zimbra is that it cannot connect to anyone else with IMAP. It expects to be the full-blown mail server, not a secondary type system. So I had to set it up and jump through some hoops to get it talk, forward, and deliver mail, etc. from Postfix.
I had looked at Horde some time ago, but brushed it off. I think I'll check it out though again and get it up and running.
Thanks! Max
Most of my users seem OK with it. I was running it side by side with roundcube as a test, and most users seem to like the extra bits. Besides, horde keeps compatibility with less than brand new PHP versions, but Roundcube insists you have the newest PHP installed everytime they generate a new version. I just can't hack a production server every few months at the whim of developers that want to play in a new sandbox every week.
Squirrelmail is supposed to have many addons like shared addressbooks and calendars, but it seems that many of the apps don't play well with others. I gave up on trying to get them to work.
As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to "downgrade" to what Zimbra thinks works. And Horde has been around for a long time, and seems to stay current. The devels are very active, and patches come out regularly.
Scott Silva wrote:
on 5-12-2009 4:24 AM Max Hetrick spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
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I had looked at Horde some time ago, but brushed it off. I think I'll check it out though again and get it up and running.
Thanks! Max
Most of my users seem OK with it. I was running it side by side with roundcube as a test, and most users seem to like the extra bits. Besides, horde keeps compatibility with less than brand new PHP versions, but Roundcube insists you have the newest PHP installed everytime they generate a new version. I just can't hack a production server every few months at the whim of developers that want to play in a new sandbox every week.
As far as I know, Horde/IMP doesn't play well with mailboxes that contain square brackets in their name (which is a common pattern for maillist mailboxes at our site...). They are always reported as being empty and one cannot move/copy mails to them.
frank
Scott Silva wrote:
Most of my users seem OK with it. I was running it side by side with roundcube as a test, and most users seem to like the extra bits. Besides, horde keeps compatibility with less than brand new PHP versions, but Roundcube insists you have the newest PHP installed everytime they generate a new version. I just can't hack a production server every few months at the whim of developers that want to play in a new sandbox every week.
Squirrelmail is supposed to have many addons like shared addressbooks and calendars, but it seems that many of the apps don't play well with others. I gave up on trying to get them to work.
As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to "downgrade" to what Zimbra thinks works. And Horde has been around for a long time, and seems to stay current. The devels are very active, and patches come out regularly.
I have it up and running already on a test machine. Seems pretty straight-forward. I found a nice guide to installing and configuring it on the Horde wiki, actually. Perhaps someone else can benefit from it as well.
http://wiki.horde.org/CentOS5InstallationNotes
I'm pretty impressed so far. Another thing about Zimbra that I don't like is that it keeps all of it's mail stores in some strange numbered format. You can just access a user's mailbox by name, which could be an issue down the road with restoring backups, etc.
In this instance, Horde would just replace SquirrelMail, or for that matter, they could run side-by-side if so desired. Squirrelmail has been great for my organization for quite a few years, but it's just time for something a bit more suited to groupware-like use.
Plus, we have an old version of PHP Groupware as a calendar, and I've never liked the package, and I'd like to combine some of these items into one package to maintain and worry about.
Thanks again, Max
Scott Silva wrote:
As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to "downgrade" to what Zimbra thinks works. And Horde has been around for a long time, and seems to stay current. The devels are very active, and patches come out regularly.
Have you guys had any security issues with Horde at all running on an outside world server? I'm reading their security tips now, but wanted any opinions on experiences.
Thanks, Max
on 5-13-2009 6:35 AM Max Hetrick spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to "downgrade" to what Zimbra thinks works. And Horde has been around for a long time, and seems to stay current. The devels are very active, and patches come out regularly.
Have you guys had any security issues with Horde at all running on an outside world server? I'm reading their security tips now, but wanted any opinions on experiences.
Thanks, Max
Stay up to date like any other piece of code. I see script kiddie attempts to hit some of the older exploits, but haven't seen any problems yet.
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 17:31 -0400, Max Hetrick wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
Do you think you might want webmail also? If so, the Horde apps from the extras repo will do it for you.
Hi, Scott,
I've been "evaluating" Zimbra for a bit now, as it seemed that configuration and set up of Horde was kind of complicating. I wasn't aware that it was in the repo, though, so perhaps I'll give it another shot.
Are there any docs that you are aware of to getting it up and running using the RPMs?
I know the Horde website has documentation on installing things, but they seem custom to installing it manually and compiling packages, etc. Honestly, their documentation seems lacking from a configuration stand point.
---- yes, horde stuff can be a bit difficult to set up the first time because there is so much flexibility and each module has its own setup.
The 'extras' seems to be a bit behind, perhaps that was something Johnny was taking care of and I haven't seen him around CentOS for quite a while. You would probably want to use the tarballs from horde at this point but there is a lot of help for horde setup, you can ask this list or better yet, the horde list.
Craig
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I recently switched to using Thunderbird for my email and installed the Lightning calendar add-on. Now all I need is a remote calendar server. I just need a simple server to support a few personal calendars and a shared calendar. Any recommendations for a CentOS / Apache based calendar server?
Zarafa (community edition) supports ical (and very soon caldav) and had also a webaccess (for mail/calendar/etc ...) You can sync directly on your mobile devices too with their z-push opensource solution http://www.zarafa.com
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