wahlau's online hut

today i bumped into a site that talks about a new project called Hula. It has kind of different approach for groupware-like solutions - focus only on email server and calender, not on every possible functionality. it says in the homepage:

"Hula is a calendar and mail server. We are focused on building a calendar and mail server that people love to use, instead of broadly trying to build a "groupware server" that managers want to deploy."

installing it was truly simple using hoary. i did a sudo apt-get install hula and then it is ready. You perhaps need to create the agents, so continue with sudo hulasetup -a then start the service by using sudo /etc/init.d/hula start should do the work.

Hula does not use any of our familiar MTAs, instead it uses NetMail from Novell. the best thing is, we don really need to know how to install and configure it, the installation is one of the simplest i have ever encountered. It claims it can support rather large number of users at any given time... take a look at the claim here and a review.

below is a screen shot of the webmail interface.

so if it works out well, Hula would be my home intranet mail and calender system for the time being. i am tempted to start another test: VOIP, but wonder whether i would have the time :)

til then, have fun.