I was asked to look a an eMail application for my mom. Her company was set up with Horde for their email. I was not familiar with this application, but I gave it a shot.
Their main issue was that their deleted email was not being deleted. They would select an email(s) to delete and select to move them to Trash. The emails were still showing, which is very annoying. Also they were not able to send "formated" email.
After looking at their settings, I discovered that their admin did not set up a trash folder for the deleted email to be sent. So I set one up and demonstrated the deleting of emails. Now to the formatted email issue.
After some searching, and the Horde.org site was down at this time, I found out that Horde does not support "formatted" or Rich Text emails. I did find a work around. If you have a gmail account you are able to change the from email address on emails being sent from you gmail account by adding the alternative email address to your account and verifying the email. Once this is done you are able to select what email address you want to use for the from email. The only thing is that in outlook it might show as "From yourusername@gmail.com on behalf of customaddress@mydomain.com".
For a free email server application, Horde is a good and somewhat powerful. The Horde Project is always adding and improving their application. In fact the new groupware feature would be great for companies. Check them out at www.horde.org.
Also I found only a couple of tutorial web pages, they are:
A side note she had Squirrel Mail available for them to use as well. This is a very simplistic email interface. I did notice that the address book form Horde was not available in Squirrel Mail.
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