Hula (software)
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 Hula's webmail interface |
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| Developer: | Novell (NetMail code base) / Hula community |
| OS: | Linux |
| Use: | Webmail Mail server Electronic calendar |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | hula-project.org |
Hula is a free software/open source mail and calendar project announced February 15, 2005 by Novell.
It is derived from an existing product by the same software house, called NetMail, and retains many of the architectural features of that software. However, important components such as the mail store are being re-developed to integrate new functionality (such as search) and new features (such as calendaring, using the calendar server protocol CalDAV). As such, when complete it will be a more modern system with better support for common standards in comparison to the earlier NetMail product.
In the intentions of developers, Hula aims to expand in three main directions: a calendaring tool; a web rich mail client; a search facility for all mail and calendar information within the server. It comes with a web-based client to access information, but desktop applications are readily supported. Novell Evolution released with Hula support in version 2.6, and other clients are expected to support Hula closer to Hula's release. Hula 1.0 is expected later this year.
It is released under the GNU General Public License.
Hula is an open-source effort sponsored by Novell and developed by Dave Camp and Joe Gasiorek, amongst others.
