Re: [TCLUG:21691] HP OpenMail

["Kelly Black" <blackk100@hotmail.com>]

I have played around with it.  I had a demo running at work, but the powers 
that be decided to try an ASP for mail running Exchange.  Openmail worked 
well.  Lots of command line tools.  Many man pages.  You can download a time 
limited version from HP's website.  I know that at one time you could get a 
full working version (without support) for a company with <50 people (i.e. 
50 licenses for free!).  I thought running HP OpenMail on Linux would be 
cool as well, but alas...

As for your other questions:
1. You need to apply a patch to the Outlook clients, and then it works about 
the same as talking to an Exchange server.

2.  Performance. It performed extremely well (of course using only 2 users 
is not a valid test, but I was able to get it to run on hardware that would 
have not worked with NT and Exchange.)  I believe the hardware requirements 
are much less (probably due to the fact you are not running a stupid GUI on 
a mail server (NT, ugh what a joke).

3.  Scale.  I did not try that, but you can run a license server, and allow 
several OpenMail servers to take the load.  The back end for the transport 
(from what little I played with it) is Sendmail.  I did not try to get it to 
talk to qmail or the like (but it probably could via the sendmail 
compability in qmail).

Kelly Black


>From: "Jonathan Erickson" <jon.erickson@neicoltech.org>
>Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>To: "TCLUG" <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
>Subject: [TCLUG:21691] HP OpenMail
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:26:22 -0500
>
>I need to get a new mail server with the ability to support MS Outlook
>calendaring and group folder functionality.  I've heard that there is a
>Linux version of HP OpenMail that runs on Linux and has good Outlook
>integration.  My question is this, is anyone running HP OpenMail in a
>production environment.  If so, how does it perform\scale ?  How seemless 
>is
>the Outlook integration?
>
>I would love for our MS Outlook clients to be dependent upon a Linux mail
>server :^)
>
>Jon
>
>
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