Re: [Evolution] wish-list (again)

[Tony L <someone sonic net>]

I think those are great ideas.
I think there should be a server version of Helix GNOME Desktop.
I mean Helix GNOME Desktop did what Windows and MacOS has had for a few
years. Right now HelixCode is pretty strict about what they put into their
stuff but I am sure they would take suggestions.
You should have seperate Installer/Updater which would let you choose your
server components. For example, we could have all of our package variants on
a remote server. They could choose between qmail or sendmail if they wanted.
Yes this takes much more of our, the currator, time but isn't it worth it?
What HelixCode did was take the best-of-the-best and made it better by
packaging it for every known Linux-like system.

Lemi update your list.

HTTP (Apache)
FTP
NFS Server
CVS

Can anyone think of anything else?

I don't think it should be limited to mail stuff at all!
I think it should be a whole server-suite.

But you all know we could really do this if we had the reasources.
I'm positive Andover, VA Linux or some other company would easily give us
sponsorship as with every other open source suite.

What do you people think?

But a good server interface is my idea of heaven. It's just too complicated
to have your tools spread out and all in different formats and some don't
even have tools and you have to manualy edit the cfg files. Kinda fun, yes,
when you have time. But otherwise it's a pain!

t0ny

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> From: Erik Karlberg <erik karlberg org>
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:30:30 +0200
> To: evolution helixcode com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] wish-list (again)
>
> Michael Wood wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:53:05AM +0200, Dylan van Iersel wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We've heard that there is no evolution server, BUT is there
> > > going to?
> >
> > Initially I thought there was going to be an Evolution server,
> > then I found out there wasn't.  But what would an Evolution
> > server do that isn't handled by an IMAP/POP server, an SMTP
> > server, an LDAP server and a calendar server?
> >
> > i.e. isn't an "Evolution server" just a combination of the
> > above?
>
> Yes, almost. 
>
> However I think that many people would appreciate a whole package,
> distributed as rpm's, deb's or pkg's, that contained all this.
>
> The package should contain at least the following:
>
> SMTP (qmail or sendmail)
> LDAP (openldap)
> IMAP (courier-imap or uw-imap)
> POP (qmail-pop or other)
> Web access to mail, calendar and more (horde with imp or other)
> One interface for configuring and setting everything up.
> One interface for administrating users. (this is supposed to be used by
> non-technical staff)
> Something for the calendar stuff (LDAP?)
>
> I have actually had some plans of doing this, but haven't started
> anything yet.
>
> I think that having this kind of package would make it very easy to
> satisfy the needs of most installations, as well as provide the
> opportunity to make custom installations based on something that is
> working from the beginning.
>
> So, this is one way of doing this. The other way is to make something
> completely new. Writing a whole new product could make it very good,
> nice and everything, but it would probably take quite a bit of more time
> and energy.
>
> So, have Helixcode got some plans of organizing something like this in
> the future?
> Anyone else with plans or thought in this direction?
>
> Erik
>
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