Hual a calendar and email server

Hual is a calendar and email server that is designed to be fun and easy to use, and can be easily applied by small groups of large organizations with thousands of people. Hula is an open source project led by Novell (http://www.novell.com).

Simply speaking:

Hula is an email, calendar and Address book server
Currently hula comply with GPL protocol (prior to Hula compliance with MGPL and LGPL agreements)
Hula is a working server in a production environment
Anyone can easily use hula from a system administrator to a regular user.
Hula works well under Ubuntu

Package Installation

Installing from a Package

+ Easy to install
+ Built-in Upgrade tool
+ code tested and tried
-Not the latest code
-code modified on the basis of source code
-some features are turned off by default

Source

From the source code you can find

+ Latest code with new features and patches
+ No changes-source code directly from the developer
+ Suitable for handling hula code
-Upgrade will be troublesome
-compilation takes a long time
-Unwanted code on hard drive
If you are running a hula server, it might be a good choice to use a package, and if you want to test or process the hula, it is more appropriate to run it from the source file.

Configuration

Before you can start using hula, you must configure hula with your domain information. You can use the Hulasetup command to do this:

sudo hulasetup--domain=yourdomain.com

Replace yourdomain.com with your domain name (for example: ubuntu.com). There is no www. or http://[http://]

Run Hula

Hula has a INIT.D script, you just run it (in a terminal window) to start hula:

Sudo/etc/init.d/hula start

and terminate Hula:

Sudo/etc/init.d/hula stop

Note: It may take a few minutes to completely stop hula, so please be patient and wait for:).

Other considerations

Hula [[/hula/webadmin/webadmin] [/webadmin WebAdmin]] runs on port 89. You can login using Username: admin and Password: Hula.
Hula UI runs on port 8080. You can log in using the account set up in [[/hula/webadmin/webadmin] [/webadmin WebAdmin]].