[GRLUG] Linux server sync with MS Outlook

[Ben Rousch]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ubuntu" <ubuntu at timhynde.com>
To: grlug at grlug.org
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2007 3:45:35 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Linux server sync with MS Outlook

>>
>> I have been running the open source Zimbra on Ubuntu server for six 
>> months or so now. You will want some good hardware for it. They recommend 
>> dual Xeon and 2GB RAM. I am running it on 2GHz proc, 512MB RAM for 2-3 
>> people. You will also want a static IP.
>>
>> My experience with it:
>> 1. The web client is slow to load initially (probably due to my 
>> sub-recommended hardware), but once it loads it works smoothly.
>> 2. The addressbook with shared contacts is very nice.
>> 3. The calendar is overall very nice, but the alarms system is limited. 
>> You can choose a single time interval for all appointments, such as 15 
>> minutes before an appointment. This is very restrictive after coming from 
>> Google's calendar system.
>> 4. I have been able to sync Evolution (on Linux, haven't tried Windows) 
>> with Zimbra, which is very nice.
>> 5. It has been very stable overall and the web admin GUI is nice.
>>
>> (This bottom posting thing is kind of annoying to those of us with modern 
>> conversation-grouping email clients like Zimbra :P)
>> --
>> - Ben Rousch

Ben, this definitly sounds like the solution I am looking for, can you 
clarify though, when you say server is there a specific Ubuntu install that 
is a server or do you mean a desktop installation running as a server? I'm 
still a little unclear on some of the terminology, right now I have SuSE 
10.2 but would gladly change if the other worked better. Can you advise? I 
have plenty of hardware for this app.

Tim 

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Ubuntu has a non-GUI install that they call server. The most basic server install is not running any daemons, not even openssh-server. You install what packages you want from that point. It's a lot easier to start from this server install than to try to remove things from a desktop install.

Zimbra provides SuSe binaries, so I'm sure you could get it running on that distro if you are more comfortable with it. http://www.zimbra.com/community/downloads.html I can't tell you which distro runs it better, but I suspect that you will get the best support on Red Hat and SuSe.

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- Ben Rousch