How many machines do you have? How many contacts do you have? How many machines do you try to keep your contacts in sync on? There are a lot of ways to do this. You could copy those contacts on a flash drive and move them back and forth, making sure you add the new [...]

Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

I have covered the Evolution groupware client on Ghacks before (check out all content containing Evolution here). Everything from basic tasks to connecting to an Exchange server, it’s been here on Ghacks. But one thing I have neglected is some of the lesser known, but very useful features tucked away in this fantastic application. So, [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

We all have too much to do. So much so that we need tools to keep track of everything we need  to do. It used to be we just slapped sticky notes everywhere to remind us what was coming up, what we had to buy, what we had to do…everything. Now we use various applications [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software

For any open source advocate, one of the biggest needs is an Exchange-like server. There are plenty of them available, some of them offer less-than enough features to really be viable. Some of them offer plenty of features but are insanely difficult to install. And then there’s Zarafa. Zarafa is an open source collaborative software [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Software, The Web, Tutorials Basic

I’ve done a few articles about the Evolution groupware client here on Ghacks and I promise more. As Evolution is, essentially, the Outlook of Linux, it deserves plenty of attention. In this article I am going to show you how to tackle the task of handling junk email in everyone’s favorite open source groupware client. [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Email, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Evolution is the groupware suite for the Linux operating system. It is, for all intents and purposes, Outlook for Linux. The only downfall is, out of the box, it doesn’t play well with Exchange 2007. But, like every other hurdle the Linux community has come up against, a work around was created. The work around [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

We are plowing forward with the eGroupware installation. We have already been introduced to eGroupware (see my article “eGroupware: Your Exchange replacement has arrived“), we have also seen how to take care of all the prerequisites (see my article “How to install eGroupware“), and finally we’ve seen how to create the header.inc.php (see my article [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Server, Software, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

Quite some time ago I wrote an article that illustrated how eGroupware could serve as a legitimate Exchange replacement (see my article “eGroupware: Your Exchange replacement has arrived“). I very briefly skimmed over the process of installing this outstanding groupware tool. In this case, skimming will get you nowhere. Recently I revisited the installation of [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Server, Software, Tutorials Advanced

If you work in a business environment then you know the value of the office application. And if you have ever thought about using Linux in your office you know there are boundaries to adoption. The good thing is those boundaries are growing smaller and smaller with every year. The reason those boundaries are shrinking [...]

Categories: Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Software