[mdlug] MS Exchange alternative

[rborromeo at the5spot.com]

One of the major things is the ability to sync OTA to Blackberry, iPhone 
and Android phones. And have a IM client would be a plus. I was looking 
at Ignite Openfire for that.

On 2/9/2011 8:33 PM, Mark Montague wrote:
>  On February 9, 2011 20:07 , "rborromeo at the5spot.com" 
> <rborromeo at the5spot.com> wrote:
>> Are there any other alternatives to Exchange other than Zimbra? Now that
>> it's own by Vmware it doesn't seem like much of an option as the price
>> tag is on par with Exchange.
>
> SOGo + OpenChange gives you a complete solution that allows MS Outlook 
> users to continue using Outlook, while others use Mozilla Thunderbird 
> and Mozilla Lightning, Apple iCal, the SOGo web interface, or other 
> clients.
>
> http://www.sogo.nu/about/overview.html
>
> There is an excellent article about what SOGo is and how to set it up 
> in the January 2011 issue of Linux Journal.  I have not tried SOGo 
> myself yet, but thanks to the Linux Journal article, I will if I ever 
> have a need.
>
> However...  can you be more specific as to what your requirements are 
> for an alternative to Exchange?  For example, I use 
> http://fastmail.fm/ for my email and am quite happy with it (it is 
> based on Cyrus IMAPd), and I find Exchange to be a poor substitute in 
> comparison.  But then, I probably have different requirements than you 
> do.
>
> -- 
>   Mark Montague
>   mark at catseye.org
>