i had an idea on how to spread open source while also giving back to my community by providing free linux based email and web servers for non-profit organizations. there are two different ways of accomplishing this idea:
- i host the email and web sites on my servers for no charge
- i obtain a donated server, install and configure the OS and services, and they host the email and web sites using their own internet service provider or host
going along with those two options, are a few different scenarios to make this work. Read the rest of this entry »
i’m a zimbra fan and use it on a daily basis for my personal websites and my consulting business. i love the fact that they brought their web client to the desktop and that you can create and send emails while offline. one issues i had when installing the zimbra desktop client, was on reboot of the system i would get an error stating
the connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:7633
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i have been using a php-based program called eticket to keep track of all my customer’s helpdesk requests for my consulting business for awhile now. it’s really easy to setup and use, so i thought i’ll post my setup steps to help anyone else out.
first download the latest version of eticket from the sourceforge website, then move the file to your server via ftp, ssh, etc… and unzip the archive to an appropriate directory.
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