[CentOS] Calendar server

Tue May 12 16:26:34 UTC 2009
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

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.

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