General question: kolab or egroupware on slackware
 

Hi all,

I'd like to set up groupware functionality for a few slackboxen and was wondering if anyone may have any suggestions, or how-to's, preferences, or just general enlightenment for me on this.

For my needs, I really need more calendar, contacts info shared. There will be no windows computers, just slackware. Email, antivirus, dns servers setup is NOT required at all. Maybe that fact really helps lead me one way or the other, I cannot tell.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Hi;

I once took a look at http://www.egroupware.org and found it quite elegant and simple to setup... I don't know anything about the current version though...
If you want something really simple and lightwheight then I suggest you take a look at http://i-man.sourceforge.net

Cheers

I ran a Kolab pilot for one of my customers a couple of months ago. It works great, but you need to know that it installs everything below the directory /kolab and the package manager it is built, installed and maintained with is "openpkg" which looks much like RPM.
Other than that I thought it was worth the while and it works like a charm when you use KDE's Kontact as the groupware client.
We finally decided to drop it because the management (using MS Outlook) thought it missed some features that MS Exchange had, and the "conntector" (a small 40 dollar program you have to buy and which connects Outlook to the Kolab server) was not bug-free.
If you're only having Linux clients, then give it a go.

Since Kolab uses industry standard components (OpenLDAP, Cyrus-IMAP, Postfix) and glues those together, I still would like to use it on a future occasion.

Eric