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not having to maintain my own webmail interface.

And there's plenty of open source webmail interfaces:

• Horde/Imp
• Squirrel Mail

Have you checked out Horde? I think it does everything you're asking, except the desktop client.

The needing of a desktop client is, I think, your toughest requirement. If you can let that one go, it's easy.

yeah for the love of god don't use squirrel mail. i haven't used it in years, but IMP is a nice free ajax solution. It even has mobile views.

Horde Webmail

I have a commercial web hosting account with a company and they use Horde. And I like it. Very full featured.

The millions, er, dozens of people that use Horde won't be fond of renaming GIMP to IMP.

That's exactly the reason I would not touch anything but Gentoo and maybe LSB-based distros. I has such a hard time installing asterisk on a ubuntu machine it's not funny. No matter what I did, I could not get it to start at boot properly. It would start, but wouldn't work. Go figure. Had to add a cron job to start it, which did the trick.

And don't get me started on server-side distros. Compare installation of Horde+IMP on Gentoo and on CentOS.

on Gentoo: emerge horde; emerge horde-imp; edit a few config files in /var/www//htdocs/horde/config
on CentOS: about 20 manual steps (check it here http://wiki.horde.org/CentOS5InstallationNotes)

Doesn't change the from address. And if it did, that'd make me a bit more likely to be filtered, I'd bet.

http://www.horde.org/

I can't believe noone seems to use it, it's fast, modular , got a good email client, calendaring and notes and just works. http://www.horde.org/webmail/

do we really need to sync all of this stuff when we have unlimited data packages?

besides all this data on a device this loosable is a security risk - that's why I access mail and stuff via the browser on either 3G or a wifi connection.

examples of mail apps:
http://www.horde.org/mimp/
http://www.localguru.de/klingofox/

There already is a drop-in replacement for Exchange (though I forget what it's called).

I looked into it. At the time I looked into it, it had the following things which made it a problem for me:

1. Entirely proprietary. (There may have been an open version but it was severely crippled)
2. Dependent on Active Directory.
3. Poor/no support for IMAP (this has since been fixed, but IMAP support is at 1.0)
4. (This is the big killer) Per-client pricing which winds up being near enough the same price as Exchange.

That was the best alternative I could find - and the only one which didn't require installing some half-baked sucky plugin for Outlook which sort-of works and sort-of doesn't. Of course, because I'd now be running some other product than Exchange, if I hit problems there's no reason why they couldn't point the finger at Outlook and why Microsoft couldn't point the finger at them - so the support could easily be effectively pointless. Not really an acceptable business risk if it's going to cost me the same as Exchange anyway and require me to set up the same Active Directory environment if I don't already have it.

The only other option is something Web-based, such as Horde but at the end of the day, most business users don't care about the server. They just want the client they like (ie. Outlook) to work.

Until he's proven wrong, this statement is true. There ARE NO free groupware solutions, there never have been, and I'm starting to think there never will be. The support costs are simply to brutal and impassible an issue for the open source community to deal with

Not true. There are:

http://www.horde.org/

However, it doesn't integrate with Outlook and is entirely web-based. It's also slightly clunkier and requires more work to set up. That may not be a problem for you, I've found that most people are so conditioned to Outlook/Exchange that a pure web-based solution for it simply not going to happen.

I vote for Horde Groupware - http://www.horde.org/

I like the design. Its the only groupware with a decent file manager. It supports IMAP webmail, calendar and third-party modules. The coding is excellent and clean. Its one of the cleanest projects out there, with a VERY pedantic programmer-team.

Anyone else have more experience with it though. Havent used it in "production" yet, but certainly plan to now that its at version 1.0. A 1.0 from this team, can only mean an incredible useful and stable product, if Im listening to my hunch that is..

I vote for Horde Groupware - http://www.horde.org/

I like the design. Its the only groupware with a decent file manager. It supports IMAP webmail, calendar and third-party modules. The coding is excellent and clean. Its one of the cleanest projects out there, with a VERY pedantic programmer-team.

Anyone else have more experience with it though. Havent used it in "production" yet, but certainly plan to now that its at version 1.0. A 1.0 from this team, can only mean an incredible useful and stable product, if Im listening to my hunch that is..

The next version of Horde will have support for CalDAV. Guess what else will in the next update, that's right, iCal!

I am pretty sure PHP can do more than just web guestbooks. You know, little things, like running Friendster, Yahoo, and GAIA Online. I've also run apps like the OSS Horde/IMP web-based mail front-end with tens of thousands of users. I reuse PHP code all the time. And if you add in some of the code optimizers and server accelerators, you can really make PHP sing.

You also wrote, "Thanks for wasting years of my life and teaching me bad programming habits, PHP." Which bad habits would that be? There are good and bad ways of writing PHP, just like there are with ANY computer language.

You could always do a code bounty.

I am looking for a solution that has all information that I want in one place.
- Todo list
- contacts
- calendar
- interface to an imap server
- RSS feedreader

Syncing to a phone or whatever should be possible.
I don't trust free services so I want to have this on my own server.

Currently, I am looking at Horde http://www.horde.org/ which has all applications that I want. I had a few problems getting it to work (Javascript errors in the Administrators account) but it looks promising

You really should check out The Horde Project. Horde (and it's webmail client IMP) has been around for a very long time. Development is very active and open.

Horde went through a major rewrite/restructuring for the 3.0 effort. Horde 3.0 is definitely a web-based Exchange-killer (and Sharepoint-killer).

If you use Cyrus IMAPd as your IMAP backend, you even get shared mailboxes. Horde's other modules also have excellent sharing support. Shared calendars, mailboxes, todo lists, addressbooks, etc. Turba, the addressbook module, supports LDAP directories. Horde's other modules also have support to grab bits of info from LDAP.

I highly recommend Horde. I used to use it a lot more than I do know. When that was the case, I was also a regularly submitter of patches to the project (I helped mostly the last year 3.0 was still unreleased).

While Hula may look prettier, I find Horde to be much more functional.

Of course, there are plenty of things to be done... So, start using it and start submitting patches!

I've been deploying Horde for some of a couple of my clients lately, and they seem happy with it. It can be a pain to get set up correctly, but once you've done it a few times you begin to get the hang of it and it's not so bad. It's poorly documented, but very configurable.

If you've got a lamp server, Horde WHUPS may be the way to go.

My company uses this. It's partly the re-badged intranets.com system. Works really nicely on Windows with MSIE, but with Firefox it's a complete dog and the pages don't render the same (seem to be some bits missing, but it's still usable). Same story on Safari. Just annoying, but I guess what that's what the creators of ASP.NET wanted for non MS users.

If he's into a totally web-based solution, the guy looking should also probably have a look at the Horde project (PHP-based) - http://www.horde.org/ though I don't know if it works nicely with PDA's.

My small business is dealing with so much spam - plus the difficulty of using several machines to check our mail on - that we're actually forwarding our stuff through Gmail in order to filter spam. Not only that, but the interface is far more usable than alternatives we've used.

I keep saying "I wish we could use Gmail for our business email without having an @gmail.com in there."

This is very exciting to me.

Cant go wrong with Horde! www.horde.org

If you are wanting to host it yourself, there is always HORDE and Trean.

Seems it'd suit several people I've seen post in this thread.

Horde (and it's "modules") can be found here.

In order of preference:

1. horde-kronolith http://www.horde.org/kronolith/ (horde suite is quite comprehensive and easy to set up)
2. webcalendar http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
3. MediaWiki with calendar plugin (a little bit tricky to set up, and not as great to use as previous two)

Basically the shared feature of horde is pretty powerfull with a good rights-system. They also alow calendars to be exported etc.

Check them out.

That's HORDE you've got to do the legwork of setting up your LAMP (Postgress and IIS also supposedly work, YMMV) server up correctly, but the apps themsleves are powerful and easy to use.

The best simple solution is Horde and its Kronolith calendaring application. Lets you set up shared calendars and set editing permissions. Doesn't automatically figure out when meeting times will work for everyone, but it's easy and it will do your email, tasks, and time-tracking as well. If you need any help setting it up, check the mailing lists or just email me (I worked on Horde for my Summer of Code project).

Agreed. Squirrelmail really isn't cutting it for my needs any more. But even more than that, I really need server-side rules to sort my messages into folders for me. The only web-based app I've seen that does that is Horde's Ingo, which works with Sieve.

As you note, it was based on IMP. So go back to the source and try the latest version of IMP. http://www.horde.org/ and http://www.horde.org/imp.

As you note, it was based on IMP. So go back to the source and try the latest version of IMP. http://www.horde.org/ and http://www.horde.org/imp.

I would second Domino. Exchange is definitely a lot more popular in the SMB space, but I think a pretty compelling argument can be made for Domino.

I (along with one other admin) support around 9000 mailboxes for a F500 on Domino 6.5 on Linux. We still have plenty of time for other projects. Exchange is easier to set up, but Domino is far easier to keep running. (try manipulating messages in an active mail queue in Exchange.)

The major complaint about Domino is the unappealing client. I happen to like it, but then I'm a Lotus fanboi :) (Though I also think that OWA2003 is a much nicer webmail client, in Internet Explorer at least, than DWA6.5) For multiple sites however Domino replication could be a huge benefit since I think the performance is substantially better over slow connections than the equivalent in Exchange/Outlook.

I also suggest looking at IMP/Horde (http://www.horde.org/) as a front end for IMAP. I think IMP is a fantastic mail client, and previously while consulting for small and mid size businesses I found that people loved it.

I would use qmail, with courier and vpopmail running over top of it. For the web mail check out http://www.horde.org/. It's got some really great features.

For spam and virus check out a barracuda unit, simply amazing. http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/?L=en

It is a LAMP app, and I have been relatively happy with it. http://www.horde.org/gollem/

Our school uses WebRFM as basically a web-based file management client. It's ugly, but it works. http://mail.rochester.edu/

The HORDE Gollem is a promising project also. http://www.horde.org/gollem/

I am not in "Dial-Up" space. I am in "always connected" cable modem space where my address changes very rarely.

Your ISP sucks because they haven't started filtering port 25 traffic

I picked my ISP because they do NOT filter traffic without a good reason to filter it (such as verified reports that I am sending spam).

It sucks if you're doing something legitimate, but until your ISP controls their idiot users, it must be done

Yes it sucks, but "it must be done" is wrong. I am doing something legitimate. I run my own mail server. I do this for multiple reasons (in order of importance):

1. Previous ISPs have had very unreliable mail servers (I don't know about Earthlink's); I know how reliable mine is and have logs I can check if/when something goes wrong.
2. I get tired of identifying and notifying everyone when my email address changes when my ISP gets bought out or goes under or I move.
3. I have my own web-based mail client (from www.horde.org) to use, so I can access my mail from anywhere and on any platform with a web browser that supports SSL instead of needing to install or configure a custom client whereever I go.
4. for the experience
5. because I can

DUL makes sense for dial-up connections where the address changes every few hours because you have to dial in again. It does not make sense for "always on" connections like mine where the address has not changed in almost three years (December 2002 when an ice storm killed power for 10 days; the last change before that was when I relocated to a new state).

I have never received any reports about spam coming from my server, either directly or relayed. I have never found my address listed by any of the blacklist sites except the DUL.

Although I have done nothing wrong, I have been blacklisted because my ISP truthfully reports that I have a dynamic IP address served by DHCP. No consideration is given by the blacklist maintainers that my address has not changed in years, that my server is secured against relaying, that I have done nothing to earn being blacklisted. In fact, there is no way for me to get off of the DUL. At least with the other blacklists, there are ways I can attempt to prove my innocence of charges.

TikiWiki has added many things over the years that could help with this.

Beyond that, maybe start with e.g. Horde and work from there?

Damien

Tried Horde?

"Pop-ups that you want to occur" would include, say, the compose window of the IMP webmail client, as seen on SpamCop.net.

Download link didn't work. But this one does:
http://www.au.horde.org/pub/beosmax/BeOS5PEMaxEdit ionV3.zip

I'm in the same boat.. any pointers on how to make mutt do this?

IMP (webmail client) already does this, but you have to set up each address individually (ugh). I haven't tried the 4.0 release yet, though.

The question is extremely vague. If web access is the only requisite, I'd go with Horde.

SharpFang linked to:
> a harmless joke.

Mwahahahah! Terrific! Thanks for a good evening laugh!

Oh, come on, just a harmless joke. Sorry for no "adult content" warning. (uh... I think the meaning of "adult" has strayed a bit from what the dictionary says. I personally wouldn't describe that one as "mature" :)

Okay, disclaimer here - the linked movie isn't quite work-safe though not "that kind". Funny. Not trollish.

IMP is a webmail client used by SpamCop.net.

Just picking...glinux and gimp don't really tease the same way...

http://www.horde.org/trean/

The Horde Framework is the glue that all Horde applications have in common.

There are many applications that run on this frame work. Calendaring, mail, task lists, contact management, and more.

Will it work for law practice purposes? I don't know, IANAL :-), but it looks good.