On 3/19/2012 1:10 PM, Délsio Cabá wrote:
Hi,
I only do backup once a week :( and the backups are local to another NAS
As for the IMAP I must agreed that it's safer since they benefit from
the backups of the server.
But there is a downside: As time goes on the user will have a larger
Inbox/Outbox folder and that means loading those folders every time
the user logins. You need to have a fast WAN connection to keep many
clients using IMAP :(
IMAP is good when client and server are very close, like the
squirrelmail and the courier you have on your qmailtoaster, that works
perfectly. ut when you separate IMAP client from the server, things
are not so good.
That's why I am investigating the MAPI protocol as an alternative to
deploy for my clients and also to fight the growing need to Office 365
which comes with MS Exchange online.
Sogo is an alternative to MS Exchange and it's believed to work with
qmailtoaster. But I never had time to test it.
Why don't you try it?
You raise valid concerns regarding mailbox size... however, by teaching
your clients to create and use both online and offline folders, you
considerably mitigate those issues... for example, I have several
Insurance Agencies as clients -- they routinely get about 4GB of emails
per year on their main site... but by separating them as they come in
into existing, new, & old clients; and then in to auto, health, life,
and other folders, the sizes become VERY manageable. Then, once every
6-months, we archive everything more than 18months old into offline
storage. Thus, they can search (nearly instantly) the last 18 months of
emails, and can search (locally, and more slowly) older messages very
easily.
Most of these clients use Thunderbird and IMAP... there are known issues
with Outlook (esp. 2003 and older) and IMAP... if you ask me, issues
PLANTED by MS to encourage using Exchange vs. IMAP...
As for using MAPI, my only concern there is that I prefer to stay away
from "monolithic" standards (that is, standards that are controlled by a
for-profit company)... and Microsoft has a well-earned reputation (think
Active Directory) for making unilateral and unannounced changes to their
"standards" specifically to break "compatible" 3rd party applications.
(In Microsoft's defense, they do have a more recent history of working
WITH the Open Source community... but its going to take more of a track
record for me to trust MS "standards"... and I'm not there yet.
Of course, one of the best things about Open Source is that we all get
to do our own thing for our own reasons!
Dan
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