FreeBSD Groupware Server

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:44, TJ Varghese <tj at tjvarghese.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>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? :)
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>
>
> 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
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