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The PHP4 function _(x) is a synonym for gettext(x), so the code ends up being very readable for the maintainers: _('Permission denied.')

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We currently have the following on our Intranet.
Web based email - IMP
Global address book - Openldap
Search engine - htdig
Discussion groups - Hypernews

PHP and Apache will need to be installed to get things going.

You can view M$Word documnets with mswordview which is installed with IMP.

A lot of what you may need is on SuSe 6.2 which may make it easier to be sure that the right libraries etc exist

Twig

and


Horde/Imp

These guys are great for webmail, calendering and contact management.
A good forum type app would be Sporum. They are all freely distributable and only require IMAP (not a problem on an Intranet),mysql and perl. Twig uses php as well. All of these are fairly easy to set up (especially with php as a DSO in apache). I've set up all 3 on our intranet as evaluating a few options. They are all easily customizable. Any combination of these with a couple of hacks and snips here and there and you have your own web based groupware. =)
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Use IMAP. The best support for IMAP is provided by Outlook Express on Windows (Not outlook; it cannot store sent messages on the server), and, of course, twig, and IMP.

I tried netscape on Unix, but it crashes when I use it with IMAP. Also, IMAP is way better than POP, even when POP supports leaving the mail on the server.

I heard that vm on emacs support IMAP, and so does mutt. I haven't tried them though.

I think to myself sometimes (while glancing at the Altair 8800 callous on my right index finger), Doesn't anybody learn what a computer does right after the power goes on any more?

On another note, in the interest of fairness, I would like to throw out this info about RIT. I stumbled across the Computer Science House at RIT Page when checking out IMP. (Link is at the bottom of the page) Checking out their "house projects" page indicates, to me at least, that they are learning a tad bit more than just configuring NT boxes. A couple of highlights from that list: Porting NetBSD to DECStation 5000 and writing an FTP server for BeOS...Sounds a little beyond textbook, IMO.

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As far as I can tell, this doesn't directly compromise control of the domain name, just the cheesy webmail account. Of course, as others have stated, that may be an effective tool to help with social engineering..

Anyway, I prefer to roll my own webmail service using Imp along with mod_ssl which doesn't require sending cleartext passwords over the net.

...a very simple one. I am a cablemodem user who is trying to setup something for people behind our firewall as a kind of community effort. I have a small Pentium 150 box with a couple hundred meg of RAM and a 2 Gig HD for about 100 people. I am running the Cyrus/Sendmail/Procmail configuration for the server end. For the clients, since it is IMAP/POP combination which is fully compatible with Netscape's mail client, or any IMAP compliant client for that matter. I then use OpenLDAP for the the directory server. There is a great article at Netscape on how to customize the address book to use a specific server (involves editing the .js files, and I don't have the link in front of me) so that the Linux box is a used as the default LDAP server. Finally, and this is the cool part, I use the IMP/HORDE combination for a web access to the email. If you wanted the cool (yes, I am making a pro comment about Exchange) web interface to IMAP, I would recommend IMP/HORDE which can be found here for the web interface to the mailboxes. It is still in beta, but I am using it and it is very speedy. Only thing is that you will need Apache/PHP with the IMAP module, but it is GNU software. Only problem I have encountered is that the HD is really cranking when I have a lot of users running on it (but I also run the web server, ftp server, and samba for those behind the firewall). Well, that is MY experience anyway. I would imagine if you were to beef up your hardware and get some more distro opinions (one guy I talked to said I should try *BSD since it would handle the load a little better), you would find a happy medium. Just some $.02 from a joe shmo off the streets....

Bryan R.

I have done a non-trivial amount of work (documentation, patches, working on message threading DHTML) on IMP but did not end up on the list. If anyone would feel comfortable allowing me to buy the 100 shares offered to them that they cannot or do not wish to use, please let me know at jase@deadbeets.com. I'll be buying RHAT one way or another and keeping it indefinitely. It would be nice to be in on the ground floor.

Thank you very much.

Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell

The Horde Project (the maker of Imp) is making a calendar app, Kronolith.

For now, they offer no information, but the source is in cvs.

Sendy

The Horde Project (the maker of Imp) is making a calendar app, Kronolith.

For now, they offer no information, but the source is in cvs.

Sendy