Re: [Evolution] wish-list (again)

[Erik Karlberg <erik karlberg org>]

Michael Wood wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:53:05AM +0200, Dylan van Iersel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've heard that there is no evolution server, BUT is there
> > going to?
>
> Initially I thought there was going to be an Evolution server,
> then I found out there wasn't.  But what would an Evolution
> server do that isn't handled by an IMAP/POP server, an SMTP
> server, an LDAP server and a calendar server?
>
> i.e. isn't an "Evolution server" just a combination of the
> above?

Yes, almost. 

However I think that many people would appreciate a whole package,
distributed as rpm's, deb's or pkg's, that contained all this.

The package should contain at least the following:

SMTP (qmail or sendmail)
LDAP (openldap)
IMAP (courier-imap or uw-imap)
POP (qmail-pop or other)
Web access to mail, calendar and more (horde with imp or other)
One interface for configuring and setting everything up.
One interface for administrating users. (this is supposed to be used by
non-technical staff)
Something for the calendar stuff (LDAP?)

I have actually had some plans of doing this, but haven't started
anything yet.

I think that having this kind of package would make it very easy to
satisfy the needs of most installations, as well as provide the
opportunity to make custom installations based on something that is
working from the beginning.

So, this is one way of doing this. The other way is to make something
completely new. Writing a whole new product could make it very good,
nice and everything, but it would probably take quite a bit of more time
and energy.

So, have Helixcode got some plans of organizing something like this in
the future?
Anyone else with plans or thought in this direction?

Erik
 
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