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Bongo

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:55:07 +0000

What is Bongo?

We’re creating fun and simple e-mail & calendaring software. We want our inboxes to be usable again: e-mail should be a useful tool, not a productivity killer. We want to be able to use our calendars to organise our lives, and we want other people to be able to interact with us through it whether they use Bongo or not.

Although Bongo is a young project, the software itself has a long pedigree and we are simply amongst the latest custodians. But while the core code isn’t new, the ideas we have and the direction we’re taking are. We’re not trying to create a “groupware” system to compete with well-known proprietary systems, or create an “enterprise platform” which encompasses everything from document management to project planning.

Best of all, Bongo is free (as in “freedom”) software developed by an open community: we pride ourselves on being friendly and welcoming, and we see our project as being complementary to similar community projects.

Sounds good!

You’re welcome to download Bongo, try it out, let us know what you think. We’d like you to get more involved, though! We welcome all feedback, and you don’t need to be able to hack on code to talk to us.

We have an F.A.Q, of course, and a guide on how to install – then you can find out about getting involved and how to become part of the community!

http://bongo-project.org

Evolution 2.26.1.1

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:47:08 +0000

Evolution or Novell Evolution (formerly Ximian Evolution, prior to Novell‘s 2003 acquisition of Ximian) is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004. Evolution development is sponsored primarily by Novell.

Its user interface and functionality are similar to Microsoft Outlook. Features include iCalendar support, full-text indexing of all incoming mail, powerful email filters writable in Scheme,^[1] and a “Search Folders” feature (i.e., saved searches that look like normal mail folders).

Evolution can be connected to all versions of Microsoft Exchange Server except Exchange 2007 using their web interfaces and an Evolution add-on formerly called Ximian Connector. Using gnome-pilot, it may be synchronized with Palm Pilot devices, and OpenSync enables it to be synchronized with mobile phones and other PDAs.

Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Evolution is Free software.

Feature Highlights

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No viruses or worms
Junk filtering
Desktop integration
Developer Platform (EDS)
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EPlugin
Advanced email searching
Web calendars
User-defined filters
Multiple accounts
Palm device support
Customized reminders
Multiple calendar views
iCalendar support
To-Do list
LDAP compatible
Share vCards
Security and encryption
Open Source
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http://gnome.org/projects/evolution

Zimbra 5.0.16

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:28:18 +0000

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in San Mateo, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007.^[1] The software consists of both client and server components. Two versions of Zimbra are available: an open-source version, and a commercially supported version (“Zimbra Network”) with closed-source components. These software versions are available from Zimbra for download and independent use, from Zimbra-authorized partners, and included with service from a Zimbra-authorized hosting provider.

The ZCS Web Client is a full-featured collaboration suite that supports email and group calendars using an Ajax web interface that enables tool tips, draggable items, and right-click menus in the UI. Also included are advanced searching capabilities and date relations. Online document authoring, “Zimlet” mashups and a full administration UI are also included. It is written using the Zimbra Ajax Toolkit.

The ZCS Server uses several open source projects (see the section, Included open source projects). It exposes a SOAP application programming interface to all its functionality and also is an IMAP and POP3 server. The server runs on many distributions of Linux as well as on Mac OS X.

ZCS is compatible with proprietary clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail, both through proprietary connectors, as well as the open-source Novell Evolution, so that mail, contacts, and calendar items can be synchronised from these to the ZCS server. Zimbra also provides native two-way sync to many mobile devices (Nokia Eseries, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone with 2.0 software).

Official site: blog, community, forums, wiki, demo, download

alpine 2.00

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:14:24 +0000

Alpine is a fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users. Alpine is based on the Pine® Message System, which was also developed at the University of Washington. Alpine can be learned by exploration and the use of context-sensitive help. The user experience is highly customizable through the use of the Alpine Setup command.

Alpine is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. All of the source needed to build Unix, Windows, and Web-based mail user agents is included. Alpine was developed by the Office of UW Technology at the University of Washington.

http://www.washington.edu/alpine/