MS exchange alternatives for FreeBSD

[Kurt Buff]

On 6/26/07, Ivan Carey <ivan at careytech.com.au> wrote:
> Cheffo wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I have server running postfix + courier-imap, and I'm looking for
> > someway to add possibility to exchange calendars/contacts/meeting
> > invitations/etc between mail clients.
> >
> > Can someone recommend calendar, that is compatible with windows
> > clients and can be run under FreeBSD?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > P.S. Please CC me on reply as I'm not subscribed to -questions.
> >
> Hello Cheffo,
> I wanted to do what you asked and after a lot of research I was able to
> achieve this by installing on the FreeBSD server openldap for the email
> addresses and a WEBDAV folder in Apache for the calendar.
> My setup has my email address in the ldap server and these addresses can
> be accessed by Outlook and Thunderbird.
> I use Sunbird as the calendar and publish the calendar to the webdav folder.
>
> The ldap server can be maintained by phpldapadmin
> http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/
>
> This setup allows all users to have access to a common email address
> book and a common calendar.
>
> The only thing I was unable to do was setup an imap server to allow
> access to Common emails.
>
> I am interested in being able to set up an imap server.
>
> Regards,
> Ivan

While I don't have this kind of setup myself, I usually see either
Cyrus or Dovecot mentioned for IMAP on the Postfix list as being one
of the better choices.

Kurt