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michalrz
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Hello Hardforum!
I'm a long time lurker, for almost 7 years I've been visiting daily.
Finally came the day where I actually need to ask you guys and gals for help.
background
I work for a small (20 employees) local government instution in Poland which deals in social work, supporting the disabled, etc.
Currently, those employees who use e-mail have either thunderbird or outlook express installed. We have a cheap hosting package with 3 gigs space, a domain and <=10 IMAP ready e-mail accounts.
We don't (and can't) host anything ourselves because the cheaper internet packages we have to use don't allow providing services. And it would suck, because it's currently a 6/0,5 ADSL connection, soon to be 20/1. Business level DSL with a static IP is like 5 times more expensive. And we're VERY short on money anyway.
requirements, sort of
I'll cut to the chase and just say we need something like shared Outlook Express e-mail boxes (outgoing mail, incoming, trash, flagging, read/unread replied/unreplied indicators). So that worker A knows worker B received a mail and is on top of things
We'd also like to host locally, as this is an intranet type deal and for security/control/bandwidth conservation reasons we'd like to have that on a local server.
I'd like the solution to be either very cheap (not Sharepoint, Exchange, any of those) or free to use in business. I mean, we can hardly afford upgrading one PC every year.
What I've already tried:
I wanted to try Zimbra, but apparently it's best suited for installation on the server itself, with a domain pointing to it.
GroupOffice came very close to what I wanted, it even has authorization, granular permission control, shared calendar, shared files... Seems perfect, but apparently it only acts as a gateway to the hosted mail server.
Thus, deleting e-mails from the IMAP server (we go through about 2 gigs of mail a year and we are obliged to keep a lot of that handy) also removes them from GroupOffice.
There is a how-to (http://group-office.com/wiki/Use_POP3_on_a_remote_catch-all_mailbox_for_local_delivery) for creating some kind of local storage but I tried and couldn't get it to work, even with some of the developer's assistance - I had too many questions and noone to answer them...
Does anyone have any ideas he could share? Any clarifications I should make?
Thanks!
I'm a long time lurker, for almost 7 years I've been visiting daily.
Finally came the day where I actually need to ask you guys and gals for help.
background
I work for a small (20 employees) local government instution in Poland which deals in social work, supporting the disabled, etc.
Currently, those employees who use e-mail have either thunderbird or outlook express installed. We have a cheap hosting package with 3 gigs space, a domain and <=10 IMAP ready e-mail accounts.
We don't (and can't) host anything ourselves because the cheaper internet packages we have to use don't allow providing services. And it would suck, because it's currently a 6/0,5 ADSL connection, soon to be 20/1. Business level DSL with a static IP is like 5 times more expensive. And we're VERY short on money anyway.
requirements, sort of
I'll cut to the chase and just say we need something like shared Outlook Express e-mail boxes (outgoing mail, incoming, trash, flagging, read/unread replied/unreplied indicators). So that worker A knows worker B received a mail and is on top of things
We'd also like to host locally, as this is an intranet type deal and for security/control/bandwidth conservation reasons we'd like to have that on a local server.
I'd like the solution to be either very cheap (not Sharepoint, Exchange, any of those) or free to use in business. I mean, we can hardly afford upgrading one PC every year.
What I've already tried:
I wanted to try Zimbra, but apparently it's best suited for installation on the server itself, with a domain pointing to it.
GroupOffice came very close to what I wanted, it even has authorization, granular permission control, shared calendar, shared files... Seems perfect, but apparently it only acts as a gateway to the hosted mail server.
Thus, deleting e-mails from the IMAP server (we go through about 2 gigs of mail a year and we are obliged to keep a lot of that handy) also removes them from GroupOffice.
There is a how-to (http://group-office.com/wiki/Use_POP3_on_a_remote_catch-all_mailbox_for_local_delivery) for creating some kind of local storage but I tried and couldn't get it to work, even with some of the developer's assistance - I had too many questions and noone to answer them...
Does anyone have any ideas he could share? Any clarifications I should make?
Thanks!
