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Hi All I have been looking at setting up a mail and groupware server. I have been asking questions on a ubuntu list but as the answers are moving away from ubuntu I thought I might ask questions here. So to explain. I have just started to manage the companies IT structure and it is totally disorganised. We have a user whose laptop needs repairing but I can't do it during the day because she needs it. So I suggested she uses a different machine whilst I repair it but she has lots of stuff personal to her job on it. Things like bookmarks, email, files, etc. But we have servers why doesn't she use them... So a list of needs: 1. File server (this will be hosted locally) 2. Mail server - this would collect all mail and then redistribute it to the staff. They all have personal email addresses (i.e. john@....) 3. A central place to host company bookmarks 4. A central address books that contain tags and categories for ease of use 5. A central calendar 6. A way to send notes to staff 7. A web server to serve an intranet This answers the question but we are also looking at: 8. Replacing Sage 9. Replacing MS Office (not so easy at the moment because they do a lot of access calculations in conjunction with Sage!) 10. Installing a crm For me the urgency is to migrate users away from having data stored on their own machines so they can simply shift to a new computer if a repair is needed! Firstly, how do mail servers run please? Is it possible to host it locally where we pull all the mail to a machine which the users then connect to to collect mail? Is this a better service performed online? They have a web hosting package but the hosting agents don't want to host mail. Is it possible to separate the two then? Secondly, it has been suggested I try this distro: <http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page> What do you think? Is it better to get an all in one package or add packages to a distro? Thanks for all the help. -- Kind regards Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12 v 1 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html