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Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Fjan11 writes "Over 150 man-years of work were added to the Open Source community today when Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server replacement under GPLv3. This is not just the typical mail-server-that-works-with-Outlook, it is the whole package — including 100% MAPI, web access, tasks, iCal and Activesync. (The native syncing works great with my iPhone!) Binaries and source are available for all major Linux distros."

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  1. Re:Aren't there others like this? by mistermocha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, there are some of us who work at mom & pop software shops that do have a clatch of intelligent developers on site but don't have a huge budget to buy an email solution.... and we're a lot more than 0.0000001% of all companies.

  2. Re:Aren't there others like this? by vawarayer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's a nice long explanatory answer... for the first question! ;). Do you have an answer for the 2nd?

    I might even add... do you have suggestions?

    I have already checked out a few of 'em (not necessarily OSS):

    ...of which many of them have a great potential, but I always end up having some trouble somewhere or find 'em not user-friendly/admin-friendly enough.