Re: OGo & Netmail vs cyrus

> Over the weekend had the chance to play with Novell's netmail product that is 
> released under LGPL now. What surprised me is that while hula's front end is 
> rather weak and uninteresting, 

Yep.

> the backend server (netmail) is full featured 

Compared to Cyrus it seems pretty bland to me.

> and ships with a complete web admin interface, which is rather nice, 
> complete, and interesting. 

There are some admin packages for Cyrus floating around,  but if your
using an LDAP server (so single-password between all these things) and
enable auto-mailbox creation in Cyrus there is really very very little
administration to actually do.  Changing ACLs on folders is the only
real gripe I have since nothing supports the ACL extension.

> So the following thoughts came to mind. 
> - netmail could be packaged & bundled with OGo to provide a complete 
> - maintenance and upkeep of netmail as a product?(end of life product
> by Novell?) 

Cyrus is bundled with just about every distribution so I don't see that
installation as any kind of hurdle, and it is very actively maintained.

> The later can be tested but the former may be a concern. 

Netmail's feature set doesn't seem to bring anything to the table
(IMHO).

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