Re: FreeBSD Groupware Server
Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:28:26 +0300
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:44, TJ Varghese <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Now, I have to revisit this subject after a year. >> >> Anyone knows of a concoction of software that can make me achieve the >> following with FreeBSD: >> >> Email Server >> • http, pop, smtp, and imap email access. >> • Global Address List facility >> • Personal Address List facility >> • Distribution/Mailing list capabilities >> • Personal and Group Scheduling through a calendar facility >> • Anti-Spam and Anti-virus >> • Stores Mail accounts and data in MySQL >> >> ... especially the 2nd and 3rd portions. >> >> What is the best groupware, based on MySQL, that runs on FreeBSD in this >> time and age? :) > > > > I've found Groupoffice Community edition reasonable competent with a rather > good looking UI. You'll need an SMTP & IMAP server set up separately. > > > /usr/ports/ww/groupoffice > > Ports have a rather old version of GO, but you could install it just to get > the most of the dependencies taken care of, then just download the latest > version from http://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/ and install > whatever dependencies are missing. > > That said, FreeBSD isn't officially supported, so some things do take some > tweaking. I recall also that it prefers Postfix...I was using sendmail and > the vacation autoresponder was disabled. > > > UPDATE: Installation from source was such a breeze. I only encountered a small error when the SQL tables were being populated, because I am running MySQL 5.5.8 which required ENGINE=MyISAM instead of TYPE=MyISAM. Now I just need to see if I get the features I need. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"