Hula

Short description: Mail and calendar software project

Hula

Hula's webmail interface

Developer(s)| Novell (NetMail code base) / Hula community
Repository| none
Operating system| Linux
Type| Groupware
License| GNU General Public License

Hula was an open source mail and calendar project based on open standards announced on February 15, 2005, by Novell.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

Screenshot of the Hula log-on screen

Hula was an open-source effort sponsored by Novell and developed by Dave Camp, Dalton Valliere and Joe Gasiorek, amongst others.

Hula was derived from an existing product by the same software house, called NetMail, and retained many of the architectural features of that software. However, important components such as the mail store were intended to be re-developed to integrate new functionality (such as search) and new features (such as calendaring, using the calendar server protocol CalDAV).

Hula aimed to expand in three main directions:

1. A calendaring tool
2. A web-based rich mail client
3. A search facility for all mail and calendar information within the server

It came with a web-based client to access information, but desktop applications were intended to be readily supported. Novell Evolution released with Hula support in version 2.6, and other clients were expected to support Hula closer to Hula's release.

On November 28, 2006, Novell announced that it would no longer have anyone work on it full-time.[1]

On January 30, 2007, The Messaging Architects announced an agreement to acquire NetMail and take over leadership of the open source Hula Project from Novell.

Since late 2007, the Hula project website has been down. Before it disappeared, it announced the transfer, due to the move of Hula from Novell to The Messaging Architects.

With the future of Hula unclear to many, a software fork of the source code was used to create the independent Bongo Project. Activity on this fork also seems to have been abandoned. Hula/Bongo should not be confused with proprietary mobile phone games Bongo Thinks, Bongo Knows, and Ask Bongo, all of which rely on in-app payments and SMS text messaging.

## See also

* Collaborative software
* List of personal information managers
* Ximian

## References

1. ↑ Teichman, Peter (November 2006). "Hula Status". forge.novell.com. http://forge.novell.com/pipermail/hula-general/2006-November/002084.html.

## External links

* Bongo Project

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Free and open-source collaborative software

Client-Server|

* Bongo
* Citadel
* DAViCal
* Kolab
* Kopano
* SOGo (OpenGroupware.org)
* Bynari
* Scalix
* Zimbra
* Zarafa

Web-based|

* Citadel
* eGroupWare
* Group-Office
* Horde
* Kolab
* Feng Office Community Edition
* phpGroupWare
* Simple Groupware
* SOGo (OpenGroupware.org)
* Tine 2.0
* OnlyOffice

Personal information managers|

* Evolution
* Kontact
* Spicebird
* Mozilla Sunbird
* Mozilla Thunderbird / Lightning

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Email servers

Open source|

| Current|

* Apache James
* Citadel/UX
* Courier Mail Server
* Cyrus IMAP server
* Dovecot
* Exim
* hMailServer
* Kolab
* Kopano
* OpenSMTPD
* Postfix
* Qmail
* Sendmail
* MeTA1
* Zarafa
* Zentyal
* Zimbra

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Discontinued|

* Delivermail
* Hula
* qpopper
* UW IMAP

Proprietary|

* Axigen
* CommuniGate Pro
* Eudora Internet Mail Server
* Gordano Messaging Suite
* IBM/Lotus Notes/Domino
* IceWarp Mail Server
* Internet Information Services
* Ipswitch IMail Server
* Kerio Connect
* Mercury Mail Transport System
* Microsoft Exchange Server
* Novell GroupWise

Related technologies|

* Extended SMTP
* IMAP
* POP
* Push-IMAP
* SMAP
* SMTP
* UUCP

Related articles|

* Email
* Unicode and email

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