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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:05:12 +0100
From:      Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>
To:        Martin Sol??iansky <martin.solciansky@solko.sk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: All-in-one Server
Message-ID:  <20100210160512.GK5131@obspm.fr>
In-Reply-To: <592707868.1652.1265816648780.JavaMail.root@zmail.bubble.eu>
References:  <4B72CFD1.90208@black-earth.co.uk> <592707868.1652.1265816648780.JavaMail.root@zmail.bubble.eu>

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 Le 10/02/2010 à 16:44:08+0100, Martin Sol??iansky a écrit
> ----- "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@black-earth.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/02/2010 13:58, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > > Hello sysadmins,
> > > 
> > > Happy New Year (2010)!
> > > 
> > > Anyone knows if I can build a FreeBSD box that has:
> > > 
> > > Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server Solution with
> > > the following capabilities:
> > > .       http, pop, smtp, and imap email access.
> > > .       Global Address List facility
> > > .       Personal Address List facility
> > > .       Personal and Group Scheduling through a calendar facility
> > > .       System Dashboards to allow monitoring of the Managed
> > > Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server.
> > > .       Ability for users to use the same password as that in
> > windows
> > > Active Directory is desired.
> > > .       Connector for Microsoft Outlook (Desirable)
> > 
> > Horde or SquirrelMail + appropriate addons
> > Cyrus IMAPd or Dovecot
> > Sendmail or Postfix or Exim or ....
> > 
> > You should be able to use SASL to hook up any of these to AD for
> > authentication purposes. (If you choose sendmail, you'ld want the
> > version from ports so you can compile it with all the SASL bits.)
> > 
> > Horde certainly will allow you to create Global and Personal address
> > books via various different back-end databases.  In principle it can
> > use LDAP so you might be able to bodge it into AD, but I'd recommend
> > MySQL as the least grief, fastest benefit solution.
> > 
> > Horde also provides shared and global calendars, accessilble via
> > CalDAV.
> > 
> > No idea what to recommend as a control panel for the firewall, MTA
> > and
> > imap servers I'm afraid.
> > 
> > Note that Outlook is designed to work with MS Exchange, and often
> > gives
> > less than optimal results with other mail servers.
> 
> You could try zimbra for all-in-one-email-solution instead of Citadel or Horde+, that would solve most of the problems as it integrates all the bits you need into a one working opensource bundle.
> 
Anyone knwon if they exit a zimbra ports ? 

Regards.

JAS
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