Zimbra

zenthanian · #1 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 05:43 AM

My Institution is transitioning from FirstClass to Zimbra. And one of the most difficult issues we face is replacing the forum/Bulletin Board functionality of FirstClass to provide community announcements, classroom collaboration and threaded messaging. We are looking for a product that can authenticate off of CAS and provide RSS feeds.

It sure would be nice if Zimbra had the forum features built in ... and I view it as necessary if they want to be "the leader or next-generation messaging and collaboration"

Any thoughts? Any suggestions for such BBS/forum software?

uxbod · #2 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 06:41 AM

How about using Joomla ? Some good work is being performed in the OSS community for integrating with ZCS :- [SOLVED] PHP Class for easy access to Zimbra SOAP API

*Chewie71* · #3 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 07:27 AM

We still have old NNTP (newsgroup) BBs. One of the guys here found an open source application that provides a web interface to NNTP newsgroups....and then whipped up a simple Zimlet for it. The web interface is not very fancy...and the Zimlet is pretty basic...but it works for now.

Matt