Hey skunk[ettes],

I hope you all are doing great. Now, a friend sent me the table below. He needs a mail and calendaring solution meeting the stipulated requirements. He would like to go the zimbra way, but I'm not sure if the open source edition meets the requirements. is there an alternative that you can prolly suggest?

Thanks,

Me

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The proposed application must run on Suse Linux Operating System.

The application must provide high level security

Support for 300 mailboxes / users.

Provide for mailbox size limit and message size management features.

Provide for user and system activity monitoring

Provide for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Support for authentication.

Support for mail processing, both incoming and outgoing.

Support for resend / retract messages, appointments, etc.

Support for global, groups, and personal contacts (address books) with Auto-complete addresses

Support for status tracking

Support for rich find / search / filter capabilities

Support for attachment processing of all types

Support for auto signatures / multiple signatures

Support for rules based message handling

Support for shared folders

Support for appointments management

Support for Day, Week, Month and Year multi-user and personal calendars

Support for events management

Support for tasks management

Support for various formats for Import / export of contacts, mails, etc.

Support for easy and efficient search of contacts across multiple books

Support for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) / XML Support

Support for online backup and restore

Support for rule based archiving

Support for personal folders management

Ability to handle junk and spam mail

Support for auto spell checking or spell as you type

Support for delayed delivery, mail prioritizing and reply requesting

Support for notifications of new mail, alarms, returns, etc

Support for common text editors eg. WordPad, Open Office or Microsoft Word

Support for e-mail auto save

Ability to maintain history per contact

Support group forums for internal collaboration

Ability to manage mailing lists

Ability to restrict send to specific domain / email addresses.

Ability to restrict receive from specific domain / email addresses.

Ability to forward emails and other content to other domains / email addresses.

Ability to use customized disclaimers.

Integration with the common existing e-mail clients

Must have capability to support the following:

Support Microsoft Outlook MAPI client protocol for incoming mail.

Support POP3 or IMAP4 email client protocols for use by client’s software such as Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, etc for incoming mail

Support web access for email via commonly used web browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Fire fox, etc with easy to use graphical user interface.

Support wireless mobile web access for email by mobile phone users, both for sending and receiving.

Must support SMTP for outgoing mail.

4.0      System server administration

4.1     Should provide for a centralized and comprehensive Web-based Graphic User           Interface facility for all system wide and user features administration.

Must have own spam protection (Industry-leading Anti Spam) with auto update capability.

Must have own virus protection (Industry-leading Anti Virus) with auto update capability.