[Dovecot] [Solved] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location

Ed W lists at wildgooses.com
Fri Mar 16 17:22:07 EET 2012


On 14/03/2012 10:58, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2012-03-13 6:29 PM, Terry Carmen <terry at 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



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