Group ware solution needed

[James Marcinek]

I've been using OpenGroupware. I use Postfix and cyrus for the email solution
(with Spamassassin). It runs PostrgreSQL in the backend.  

For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 06:13 +0200, Oliver Leitner wrote:
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> > Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I have received a request from a friend of mine to provide him (and his
> > > 10 people company) with a Linux based server that also gives them a
> > > group ware solution.
> > > 
> > > I was initially thinking of Lotus Notes, but it refuses to run under
> > > Fedora and doesn't play nicely under RH 9 either (I have been testing 4
> > > different Linux-en all day long).
> > > 
> > > I googled around and didn't come across anything that looks remotely
> > > promising.
> > > 
> > > Here are the requirements:
> > > (1) Server based email
> > > (2) Server based calendaring for all their people so that they can
> > > schedule meetings and know when all the other staff members are
> > > available
> > > (3) Server based document storage
> > > 
> > > Their workstations are Windows XP, they have a number of business
> > > applications for which there are no equivalent Linux versions.
> > > 
> > > The solutions I have in mind are:
> > > 
> > > for (1): sendmail/cyrus-imap/procmail;
> > > the problem here is that there is no easy way to add rules for procmail
> > > in a way an end-user understands mail filters. They can just about grasp
> > > the concept of mail filtering when they use POP3 (POP3 is not an option
> > > here, though because they want to be able to access their server mail
> > > from anywhere)
> > > 
> > > for (2): I have not found any solid open-source calendar tool for this.
> > > 
> > > for (3): I can make shared directories available through SMB but that
> > > just moves the Word/Excel/PDF/whatever-else-format-file chaos from the
> > > workstation to the server. Trying to find a specific document amongst
> > > the 1000s of arbitrarily names files is near impossible.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Any open-source solutions that run under Linux (FC3/FC4 preferred) are
> > > welcome.
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > there are many solutions:
> > 
> > 1. every linux is able to do that.
> > 2. www.freshmeat.net "calendar"
> > 3. thats actually the job of an admin to keep folder perms, so that ppls
> > cant move things to all possible places, and secondly its job of
> > educating your co-workers, to do their jobs right.
> > 
> > as a lil addon, you might wanna check www.freshmeat.net deeper, they
> > have alot of very useful tools, cms, groupware, and other engines for
> > everyones use.
> 
> i played with some software called phpgroupware recently for one of my
> clients.  it appears to be quite adequate.  and growing.  it does
> calendars, todos, etc.  all via php in apache, so its easy to access.
> 
> i don't know anything about the security implications, if you're
> planning on making it available external to the lan.
> 
> john
> 
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