Hi all,
Since I switched to SOGo only 2 years ago from Kopano (and not going for Grommunio), I would also like to add that it would be nice to keep ActiveSync alive. It should be noted that on most mobile devices, only a subset of EAS is actually used, and Grommunio therefore only supports that in addition to MAPI. Could it be an option to bring the old EAS support code to SOGo 6 and not develop it further? Android and IOS are not likely to require full EAS anytime soon. You could always mark it as unsupported (or paid support only!) and deprecated, but it would give us a way to keep going. Honestly, I would rather install PostgreSQL and abandon MariaDB than forgo ActiveSync on mobile. Thanks, Raoul Von: [email protected] <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Michael Krecek Gesendet: Montag, 6. Oktober 2025 12:51 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [SOGo] SOGo 6 no Activesync Hi Klaus, no doubt there are good reasons why you try to work open-source which in theory might be the right opinion.. However, if you believe you can change the religion of the majority of IT users and administrators being „SoGo", you run the risk that you destroy good open-source alternatives and push people even more back to Microsoft. Embrace the reality and convince people to smoothly move to open-source by building bridges - and not destroying bridges to believe people feel forced to move away from Microsoft. All other ways are poised to make good projects like SoGo drown and people run back to Microsoft and Google…. Am 06.10.2025 um 11:17 schrieb Klaus Rose ([email protected]) <[email protected]>: Even at the risk of making myself unpopular here, I would like to say that its from perspective point of view a good thing that Active Sync is being removed. Active Sync is easy to set up, but as an interface programmer you are at the mercy of Microsoft. We've been using Kopano (now SOGo) with our customers for a long time, and the (deliberate ?) change of the interfaces has caused ongoing problems. I know the pressure from customers to use Microsoft products, but I hope that new open (opensource) mail protocols will soon appear on the market that will free us from this dependency. Klaus Am 06.10.25 um 10:45 schrieb Michael Krecek ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ): Agree to all of you, as ActiveSync is easier to setup and maintain across mobile and desktop devices and is also working much more flawlessly when it comes to calendar invitations. I submitted also a request to update the Exchange Active Sync / EWS version to support the latest features (like adding geographic locations of appointments and other) way back (2023/2024) and in the reaction by the SoGo dev team it sounded to me they want to support this. I also believe this could be a deal-breaker as also the implementation of exchange alternatives on the desktop like CalDAV are a No-Go for the majority of companies. There is a reason why Google is supporting Microsoft’s ActiveSync also ;-) Michael Am 04.10.2025 um 10:56 schrieb Simon Wilson ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ) <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>: Yes, I agree with this… This is a potential deal-breaker for SOGo for me - every user I run and support uses ActiveSync connectivity to phones (iOS, Nine, Samsung, others). MAPI would be a nightmare. Simon On Thursday, October 02, 2025 17:51 AEST, "Kees van Vloten" ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi Quentin and team, ActiveSync is great for mobile devices: * Every mobile (mail-client) supports it * Users go through one setup for mail, calendar and addressbooks, i.e. user-friendly setup as well. * From my perspective ActiveSync also allows for pre-authentication, a poor-mans 2-factor authentication which is not possible with regular imap/smtp mail. * It is hard to replace because users have to get instructions how to change the mail on their phones. I hope you can revisit the decision to stop with ActiveSync as I find it an easy, simple and relatively secure solution for external / mobile email. - Kees Op 02-10-2025 om 07:03 schreef Kai-Uwe Rommel - ARS ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ): See my message to this list a couple of days ago about ActiveSync apps for Android. I really also like how ActiveSync works (e.g. only one account/connection to configure in one single app for mail, calendar and contacts). However, during the search for a suitable app I could only learn that almost anyone is abandoning it, even Microsoft. We recently got the problem that BlueMail on Android which had supported ActiveSync for a long time did suddenly not work properly any longer due to its latest update. That was the trigger why I searched for an alternative. We had used Nine before BlueMail and when I now checked Nine again I learned that the vendor does no longer maintain it in favor of a new solution which is a cloud based solution and stores user data there. So I could only decide to drop both of these and switch to Thunderbird and DAVx5 on Android. (We do not use iOS here. And we use Thunderbird on the Desktop, anyway.) Kai-Uwe Rommel From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ingo Dettmar Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 10:06 AM To: 'SOGo Reporter' <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>; <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Subject: [Marketing Mail] Re: [SOGo] SOGo 6 no Activesync Same here, we are using Nine because of the ability to import S/MIME certificates within the app and it would be quite bad if we would not be able to use it anymore. Ingo Dettmar Group IT Operations Manager Aware Corporation Ltd. _____ From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> on behalf of "Daniel Petrik" <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2025 2:49 PM To: 'SOGo Reporter' <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [SOGo] SOGo 6 no Activesync Hello, Have same problem, we use Nine (mail, calendar, contacts) application in android mobile, and it uses active sync. I ask Nine support and they answer actually for mobiles is not planned MAPI over HTTP. With greetings Daniel Petrík e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of "Alexander Ebner" Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 12:53 PM To: SOGo Reporter <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: [SOGo] SOGo 6 no Activesync Hello ! I have seen that the activesync server will be replaced with MAPI over HTTP. This is a big feature drop for all our customers. How ist the plan from SOGo to connect mobile phones without the need of additional apps or configuration in the future? MAPI over HTTP is a feature that only is used from outlook. What is with all other clients that preferred using Activesync ? 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