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Bongo, a new Open Source mail - calendar server

ploum
Wed Jan 30 14:56:55 -0800 2008
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I'm happy to announce you the M3 release of the bongo mail server, the first one designed to be "usable" in the real world if you are an intrepid testers.

There's still some gaps in the Open Source offer. A simple mail - calendaring server is one of them.

Of course, you have huge groupware like Zimbra but that kind or stuffs are very complicated, very heavy, not always completely Open Source and are a bit overkill for most everyday needs.

On the other hand, you can always build custom solution with postfix/squirrelmail/etc but it's also a lot of work and it does not meet today's expectations in term of features and eye-candy.

In 2005, we thought that we had a solution when Novell released Hula, an open source version of Netmail. Unfortunatly, things didn't went too far but it ultimately led to a fork called Bongo.

See this link for a full Bongo history  and try the M3 release, it might surprises you.

Bongo, a new Open Source mail - calendar server
jeff
Wed Jan 30 19:06:04 -0800 2008
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is overt advertising ok on technocrat now?  cuz if it is, i've got some junk to sell...  well, it's not all "junk" per-se, if you will, that piece over there is pretty cool, ...well, cool--ish.   and i'll do remote life-counciling for a low-low-prices... <b>you there</b> lose the birkenstocks!

Problem?

zogger
Wed Jan 30 20:16:02 -0800 2008
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Not seeing the problem here. Open source topic, a mail/calendar application announcement, and I know from reading a lot of other commentary over the years that people are having a desire a better open source calendar app, so who knows.... If you look at any number of the articles/news releases they are all sort of "announcements" and a lot of the stuff is "for sale". This one is for "free" and to use and perhaps some folks might see it and like the idea and help with the development.
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N. Dan Smith
Wed Jan 30 20:17:20 -0800 2008
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Beside the meta question of whether or not such an article is appropriate on Technocrat, I found the practical effect of this article (i.e. introducing me to a new and interesting product) quite useful. So where does that leave us?
Bongo, a new Open Source mail - calendar server
Lucifer
Thu Jan 31 01:55:32 -0800 2008
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Successful advertisement?
Bongo, a new Open Source mail - calendar server
N. Dan Smith
Thu Jan 31 07:31:47 -0800 2008
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But with regard to the original comment, is such success to be considered good, bad, or indifferent in the context of Technocrat? After all, as zogger noted, this site seems to be about Free Software promotion, and that is just what this article was.
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rubycodez
Thu Jan 31 14:18:29 -0800 2008
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nice to have announcements about software which fills gaps in the free software offerings.

 

now if someone could just fix the general purpose CADD and CAM holes so the existing CAE wares are more useful.

 

there's another hole in engineering/construction/plant management world that needs filling but that's got solution in the works 8D
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Uncle Entity
Thu Jan 31 01:23:24 -0800 2008
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I had squirrelmail set up for a spell, until the ISP decided to block port 25, and it wasn't very much work. Had it running on an e-bay 1u server under FreeBSD at the parent's house and it did everything I wanted from an e-mail app -- let me read my e-mails...

Never had a need for a calendar app though, not really into the whole long term planning thing.

Now I just use gmail.
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Dylan C
Fri Feb 01 08:54:31 -0800 2008
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You forgot to mention squirrelmail is fugly...

 

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