[DC LoCo] Citadel groupware: too good to be true?

[Ted Smith]

On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 11:35 -0400, Kevin Cole wrote:
> I hadn't even heard of it until you mentioned it.  So, I wandered over to
> the web site and their download page it says "Ubuntu 8.04 ship Citadel
> packages"... That seems a bit long in the tooth, which begs the question,
> "Why?"  So, I'll be curious to hear what you (or others) have to say after
> poking about with it.  And, if I get time / interest, I'll poke around on
> the web site a bit more.

12.04 also ships Citadel packages (see below).

What's the UI like? If it's pretty enough, I might have to install it
for myself.

> Package: citadel-suite
> Priority: extra
> Section: universe/mail
> Installed-Size: 34
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Original-Maintainer: Debian Citadel Team <pkg-citadel-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Source: webcit
> Version: 7.86-dfsg-1build2
> Depends: citadel-server, citadel-mta, citadel-webcit, citadel-client
> Filename: pool/universe/w/webcit/citadel-suite_7.86-dfsg-1build2_all.deb
> Size: 3592
> MD5sum: 738fd42112fa4a2b4f2fdad596fd8c7b
> SHA1: a8edfc320dbafbb28c6bb422f287acdbc92e247b
> SHA256: 7e4775405b88c9d30b084b1b3f5b24d88aacce81fe52a9c19d2199d088e643b6
> Description-en: complete and feature-rich groupware server; metapackage for full installation
>  Citadel is a complete and feature-rich open source groupware platform.
>   * Email, calendaring/scheduling, address books
>   * Bulletin boards, mailing list server, instant messaging
>   * Multiple domain support
>   * An intuitive, attractive AJAX-style web interface
>  .
>  The Citadel system is extremely versatile. It provides numerous front ends to
>  present to users, such as a text-based interface, an AJAX-style web interface,
>  and many popular PIM clients using SMTP/POP/IMAP. All of these can be used
>  simultaneously.
>  .
>  It's also extremely scalable. Not only can a well-equipped Citadel server
>  support a large number of concurrent users, but you can also build
>  a distributed network of Citadel nodes that share rooms and their content.
> Homepage: http://www.citadel.org/
> Description-md5: bc6a5676764badd21d08b0b14add7fb6
> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
> Origin: Ubuntu

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