On 14/03/2012 10:58, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-03-13 6:29 PM, Terry Carmen <te...@cnysupport.com> wrote:
I'm going to hope everything is OK for a while, since my goal is to
retire
all the old Exchange servers and move all the users to dovecot/maildir
within the next couple of months.
However it's always nice to know there are options. 8-)
I'm currently looking at rolling out SOGo as part of a major reworking
of their current infrastructure (will also include converting their
old Courier-IMAP to dovecot 2.1.x among other things)...
SOGo, as far as I can tell, is the best truly free and open source
'exchange clone' available that works extremely well with
Thunderbird+Lightning (which is what my Client uses currently, but
they are very dissatisfied with using Google Calendar for Shared
calendars), Outlook and Apple Apps, as well as Android, Blackberry and
Apple mobile devices - and their upcoming v2 (in beta now) will not
only provide native Outlook support (no plugin needed), it will also
(optionally) provide a Samba4 Active Directory server in my main
Client's office - all with absolutely no licenses required. Commercial
support is available from Inverse, the company created by the
developers to provide said support services.
I also learned something very interesting yesterday concerning SOGo
and dovecot during a sales call with a SOGo rep, but I'll wait and see
if Timo cares to chime in on this one... ;)
If the answer is that he will write a Z-Push/Activesync module for SOGo
then I'm all ears! I have been watching SOGo for some time and the main
thing I would miss is that every phone I have ever owned has largely
limited/broken Funambol based sync and annoyingly working Activesync
capability (I own a stream of Nokias...). It seems that although I
don't like it, I need activesync support if I want my contacts/calendar
on my phone... (I think I can do caldav on some of them, but not cardav
on my N9)
Apart from that it's a very neat system!
Ed W
