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Whats Going on About Open-Sourcing the OpenMail Program?

April 26, 2017going open-sourcing openmail program

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Whats Going on About Open-Sourcing the OpenMail Program?

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Bruce Perens Senior Strategist, Linux and Open Source Hewlett-Packard Corporation bruce@perens.com Permission is granted to republish this letter in its entirety, without alteration of the text. You may change formatting to fit this letter in your presentation. There’s been a lot of talk in the Open Source community about HP’s recently-cancelled OpenMail product. OpenMail is a server for a few dozen different email protocols, many of them proprietary, most of them obsolete. The most important of these protocols is Microsoft’s MAPI (Mail API) which is used by Microsoft Outlook. That makes OpenMail capable of serving as a replacement for Microsoft’s Exchange Mail Server, and thus OpenMail might have been used to serve a large network of Microsoft groupware clients with a Linux system. OpenMail is also useful because it can support an extremely large number of mailboxes efficiently. OpenMail contains a lot of internal knowledge about how Mi