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Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Looking for mail/contact/.. software

Hello,

I'm looking for a software to manage contacts, send and receive emails, make appointments, tasks .. (calendar).

Evolution seems to be able to do all of that, but I'd like to do all these things through a web-interface so all I need is a browser.
The benefit of such a software would be that you can use it from any location, on any device.

it should be free of course, and I'd prefer a php or python based backend

thanks

Issh

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 58

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

Gmail and google calander ^^

wirenik

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 134

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

Hello,

I'm looking for a software to manage contacts, send and receive emails, make appointments, tasks .. (calendar).

Evolution seems to be able to do all of that, but I'd like to do all these things through a web-interface so all I need is a browser.
The benefit of such a software would be that you can use it from any location, on any device.

it should be free of course, and I'd prefer a php or python based backend

thanks

I'm not entirely sure I see where you're going with this, but Gmail offers forwarding to POP3 and IMAP. That means you can use Evolution, Kmail, or Thunderbird, among other clients, to access your Gmail messages.

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Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

found something ... horde.org, egroupware

tried horde and it basically worked, but I need more time to look into this

ps: I want to be independent from google, or any other company

Last edited by Eliteforce (2008-09-13 19:36:27)

z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 278

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

found something ... horde.org, egroupware

tried horde and it basically worked, but I need more time to look into this

ps: I want to be independent from google, or any other company

Then in all reality you will have to write your own.  Even with horde.org, you are at the whims and financial availability of the parent company or organization

Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

Then in all reality you will have to write your own.  Even with horde.org, you are at the whims and financial availability of the parent company or organization

*sigh*
... not really

Last edited by Eliteforce (2008-09-13 22:56:01)

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

I used Thunderbird with the Lightning add on for the calendar/tasks feature.

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wirenik

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 134

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

Then in all reality you will have to write your own.  Even with horde.org, you are at the whims and financial availability of the parent company or organization

*sigh*
... not really

What is that reply supposed to mean?

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dunc: If it is, the people who live there must be getting pretty annoyed by now with all the junk we send them.

Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

What is that reply supposed to mean?

means that I'm tired of such comments
of course, you're always dependent on the company/community/developers of the software... (else there would be no software)

with the sentence "I want to be independent from .." I meant, that I don't want to use particular services offered by a company

with e.g. horde, I just grab the latest version, install it on my server and it works.
if the project dies - doesn't matter, it still runs on my server and I can export all my data (and re-import it into another software)
the mails are on the IMAP server I choose, and the other things are stored in my database

makes sense, doesn't it?

Last edited by Eliteforce (2008-09-14 10:02:51)

Obi-Lan

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 179

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

Horde is pain to configure but otherwise quite nice to use, I would hope that you could use kronolith trough thunderbird etc.

BTW isn't it a bit overkill to have lamp groupware suite for single user?

Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

BTW isn't it a bit overkill to have lamp groupware suite for single user?

I don't think so -- but are there any "lighter" alternatives?

and it's quite easy to configure imho, just like installing a cms or forum

Last edited by Eliteforce (2008-09-16 17:12:56)

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,223

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Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

I'm going to use eGroupware soon. Looks like the imminent 1.6-release brings some nice improvements. The GUI being one major improvement IMHO.

The feature list is great: IMAP, sendmail, LDAP, WebDAV, SyncML etc.

Zl.

Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

yeah, so far I didn't have time to check egroupware (imo it's more complicated to set up than horde)
I really should take a look at that 1.6pre1 release..
do you know if it can be upgraded to the final release?

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,223

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Re: Looking for mail/contact/.. software

No, I have no idea. My hosting provider is still stuck at MySQL 4, so until they upgrade I cannot use eGroupware 1.6.

Zl.