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Contents 1 Sieve frontends 2 Groupware 3 Account management 4 Proposed connection protocols for iCalendar based groupwares 5 Articles 6 German articles 7 Misc

Sieve frontends

Sieve is a mail filtering language, intended for server-side filtering of emails.

• Smartsieve
• Ingo
• Gosa
• sieve-php is a class written in PHP that supports the MANAGESIEVE protocol, in order to allow users of web interfaces written in PHP to interact with such servers without knowing any of the backend details.
• PEAR::Net_Sieve another class library written in PHP for communicating with sieve server. Unit-Tested.
• Avelsieve or, verbosely, "SIEVE Mail Filters Plugin for Squirrelmail" is a Squirrelmail plugin for creating SIEVE scripts on a Cyrus IMAP server. The web interface provides a wizard-like interface that, in the end, creates part of a SIEVE script, a so called rule. It then assembles all the rules to form a SIEVE script.

Groupware

• kolab
• hula is no more
• citadel
• opengroupware
• open-xchange

In emaillist threads egroupware was listed as incompatible. It actually integrates with kolab pretty very as far as email and authentication go. All other modules use a abstracted DB backend, mysql, oracle, mssql, pgsql.

I managed to setup egroupware with Kolab in a couple hours. Egroupware hooks directly into the Kolab LDAP Authentication for user accounts. The webmail solution hooks into Cyrus and Sieve no problem, with nice wizards, like horde's, for setup and management.

The rest of the modules including Calendar, Todo, Notes, etc... (they have modules coming out their ears) use an SQL backend and support standards such as webdav, ical, SOAP API and SyncML for outlook and PDA integration... it's pretty amazing and a nice GUI.

Account management

• GOnicus System Administrator (GOSA) is a GPL'ed PHP based administration tool for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases. As of june 2005 GOSA has (limited) kolab support.
• LDAP Account Manager
• Fedora Directory Server Project
• Samba Console
• Luma - LDAP browser, utility and more
• lat - LDAP Administration Tool (gtk# and Mono based)
• OpenMailAdmin
• ldapvi

Proposed connection protocols for iCalendar based groupwares

• groupdav
• caldav

• calconnect

There are some points to consider before becoming a calconnect member though;

1. They ask for annual membership fees
2. They seem to be centered around CalDAV
3. They are very US centric and not really OSS

Articles

• The big kolab interview part-I and part-II
• slashdot GroupDAV: Standardizing Groupware
• Red Hat releases Netscape Directory Server to OSS
• Resuscitating Microsoft Exchange 5.5 with Linux

German articles

• BSI-Kurzinformationen zu aktuellen Themen der IT-Sicherheit
• Brave GNU World
• Sonderheft Linux-Magazin 03/2005 "linux + windows" - Kolab2 -- integrierter Groupwareserver aus freien Komponenten

Misc

• Kolab Konsortium - Kolab support
• openconnector
• A nice Apache-WebDAV-LDAP howto
• Directory Services Markup Language
• altermime - is a small program which is used to alter your mime-encoded mailpacks