On 2018-10-17 16:16, jan.brab...@actinovo.com wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am very sorry if this is the wrong area or wrong way to ask;
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> I am having difficulties to completely understand if sogo is what I
> need. Could someone please confirm?
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> THIS IS WHAT I NEED:
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> 1. Sogo is supposed to be a new layer between our existing simple
> external mail server and our Outlook and Android clients (that
> currently only support mail)
With EAS, it does that.
With classic DAV sync, it sits in parallel and only provides
calendars/adress books/tasks.
> 2. We would like to keep our 40-50 mail accounts at our provider,
> accessible via IMAP and SMTP, and now want sogo to access our mail
> accounts at our provider via IMAP and SMTP. We do not want to host
> an own mail server or SMTP gateway.
Yeah, that's the default.
> 3. All clients (Outlook, Android) should now use IMAP, SMTP, ActiveSync
> or whatever included technology to connect to sogo. By doing so they
> have access and ability to send mails (nothing really changes). But
> they also have the ability to store and access shared and individual
> calendars and address books (something that was formerly not
> possible since only mail services were provided).
As mentioned before, you either go EAS (which has some limitations and
licensing peculiarities[1]), or IMAP+SMTP as before, plus CalDAV/CardDAV
sync for address books / calendars / tasks. (Not with Outlook, but works
with Android using DAVdroid.)
[1]:
https://sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGoInstallationGuide.html#_microsoft_enterprise_activesync
> 4. Might sound dumb to repeat it again, but after implementing sogo not
> much has changed in terms of mail: The old same mail servers still
> receive and send the mails.
SOGo doesn't *have* any mail server, you have to tell it how to connect
to yours:
https://sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGoInstallationGuide.html#_smtp_server_configuration
https://sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGoInstallationGuide.html#_imap_server_configuration
> 5. Any web interface for groupware users is not really needed (nice to
> have, though). We really concentrate on accessing mail and calendar
> services via Outlook and Android clients.
SOGo has one included, providing webmail+calendars+address books.
> Is sogo the right way to go?
If EAS works for you, probably. (We've never tested it, since we didn't
want to bother with Microsoft licensing.)
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