I'm curious, would you agree with the other person who replied about issues with Openchange+Outlook?
On 7/16/2015 6:29 PM, Infoomatic <infooma...@gmx.at> wrote: > Hi, > > We have evaluated Kolab but found it not stable, neither the community > edition nor the enterprise edition. Too many bugs, a beta version of cyrus > losing index files on a regular basis, stuck (zombie) processes, a setup > routine which does not exchange the placeholder/variables in the config > files, a version of 389-directory server with serious flaws etc. We did use > it in production for a year, but after a while with heavy usage and with > mailboxes with up to 200k mails we encountered lots of issues; users losing > all of their contacts (or at least problems with syncing ... the files were > on the server, however they disappeared on the mobile phone as well as in the > webinterface), same problem with calendars. The documentation is not really > straight forward and you have to do a lot of dirty hacks; too much dirty > patches on roundcube that actually do not 100% work; even a scripted daemon > that does content analysis (wallaced), but there exists 0 documentation and > the daemon hangs once in a while. We also had issues with the admin interface > somehow modifying the ldap schema. In the end: lots of troubles. > > My view on MS Exchange is biased since I strongly believe in open source, > however in a project I have to use it. I don't like it, its bloated and very > very slow, the Microsoft Smart Filtering really sucks and using the buggy > relay connectors is just pure pain in the ass. Even with the old mailserver > on the same GBit-switch we did not manage to get more than 5 mails/sec into > MS Exchange (dovecot on a testserver did around 30). Lots of tools get > timeout because its so slow (running new adequate hardware for about 80 > users), e.g. the Xerox WorkCentre cannot send scans because establishing a > connection to the server is too slow. IMAP support is under all critics, > users moving folders around get error messages in thunderbird because they > are still shown on the old places, so they have to delete the account and > create a new one. The Outlook Web App (webinterface) is also not that > userfriendly, losing some mails contents and mixing up some "conversations", > also, when you delete some mails via webinterface they show up on IMAP for > hours, it needs a long time to "synchronize". Search seems buggy because some > mails are not found when you search a term. Gna, have to stop this here ... I > just hate it. > > Now, SOGo: > *) few bugs, most of them I can live with > *) compared to Kolab: fast bug fixes and _stable_ releases > *) fast & lightweight, fast & lightweight, fast & lightweight!!! > *) Excellent documentation > *) Good package management and straight forward lifecycle management (almost > always upgrades without worries!) > *) As mentioned elsewhere: I like the GUI, its like a desktop software ... I > am a little worried about V3 that has to be "modern" - I think its difficult > for all the functionality to stick to those design standards > *) Modularity: use an awesome stack of nginx/apache, postfix/exim/qmail, > dovecot/cyrus/courier, antispam filter, openldap/apache > DS/389-Directoryservice, various other tools ... you get the idea ... and on > top sogo > > One of the things I am missing most in SOGo is 2 factor authorization, like > with yubi key or some other tools. > > Thats an interesting thread, hope we get some more opinions! > > best regards, > infoomatic -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
