I wanted to have a groupware for our organization. Can you please suggest the best and the easiest to deploy? Currently, I have Xmail running and squirrelmail as the webmail portal. Accounts are managed by Smartpost thru the GUI interface. I have integrated ClamAV for the SMTP scanning. Does the groupware have its own mail service? If so, is it possible to have the same functionality that I'm enjoying right now:

1.) GUI account management (adding, deleting mail accounts)
2.) mail address aliases
3.) Email groups
4.) SMTP relaying to my ISP
5.) Integration of address book to the LDAP server

Hope someone out there can help me on this.

On the server side you may find Open Xchange or Novell Groupwise gratifying. On the client side you might be happy with either Gnome Evolution or KDE Kontact. You can use Evolution while running KDE desktop and you can use Kontact while using Gnome desktop. So you don't have to choose which desktop software to run based on the application that you want to use.

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...3c91ee97eb312d

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/

On the commercial side, Novell has Groupwise.

http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/

Apparently Open Xchange no longer has a free download. I just checked their web site and I can only find references to purchasing their product. It's not too expensive for a 25 user license version but they used to have a free download and a commercial product, just as MySQL has done and continues to do. Open Xchange also requires either SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. They offer a discounted bundle price. You might be able to get around this by using CentOS, which I believe is a free distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Nevertheless, neither Groupwise nor Open Xchange are free.

http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/

How about a webbased groupware? I want fully functional with email, calendars, project management and other stuffs such as forums, chat....All of those stuff. I tried googling and found egroupware and opengroupware. However they seem to be difficult to use. I also have a mail server running on xmail with squirrelmail as the backend but my boss wants a corporate feel. Something that is comparable to lotus domino.