On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 00:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> As I posted to the ticket, I've come across another candidate which >> appears to meet the requirements and which I don't _think_ we've >> dismissed already - eGroupWare: >> >> http://www.egroupware.org/ >> >> it has a decent web interface, doesn't seem to be insane in any way, >> doesn't need Java (it's PHP), is fairly mature and actively developed, >> and has CalDAV support for the calendaring stuff. >> >> I'm probably going to deploy it on my own network for my own needs, >> will >> try to report back on how that goes. My servers run Mandriva, where >> it's >> packaged (though a very old version, I'm currently updating the >> packages). > > Well...it works! > > http://www.happyassassin.net/extras/egroupware_caldav_it_works.png > > egroupware's web interface on the right showing the test appointment I > set up, evolution on the left showing the same appointment: it's > accessing the calendar from my personal egroupware server, via CalDAV > (see the left hand pane). > > It seems like a pretty impressive little beastie, too. I managed to kill > it by somewhat inadvisedly trying to use its webmail support with my > fairly underpowered mail server's gigantic IMAP mail boxes, without > using the imapproxy instance I have set up on the mail server. I think > it timed out on something and left its MySQL database in a broken state. > But that's the only problem I had. I haven't gone beyond setting up the > test calendar appointment and verifying Evo could connect to it, really, > but I'll stress it a bit more tomorrow by trying to get SyncML working, > sticking my *real* calendar in it, and trying contacts as well. > > The server I'm using runs Mandriva; I've updated Mandriva's egroupware > packages for this purpose. It'd be fairly trivial to convert the > packages to Fedora. Upstream actually provides Fedora packages, but at a > glance they're not terribly clean. I haven't checked whether there are > any private copies of what ought to be shared resources in egroupware > yet, really, but at a glance it doesn't involve any hideous packaging > nightmares; it's all just PHP, and it seems to use shared resources > where appropriate (it uses quite a lot of php-pear stuff). > > Do poke me on IRC if you have any questions. Will duplicate this post on > the ticket. > -- > Adam Williamson I have deployed this as well a few times thought its history and it has served me well each time. One thing to consider is how large of a service it is, I have never really had to bother with trimming all the "extra" features (mail, address book etc...) from it. Brennan Ashton _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
