On Wednesday, November 24, 2010 05:18:13 pm [email protected] wrote: > I can use OpenChange with any groupware, i.e. Exchange, SOGo, > OpenGroupware, etc,etc and it allows me to use any client to connect > to the groupware server, correct? It might be easier to consider that OpenChange is the name of the project, not the name of the software.
The client side (libraries and command line utilities provided by the OpenChange project) allows you to connect over the "ExchangeRPC" protocol(s). That is, you talk use those to connect to a server implementing those protocols (such as the openchange server, and Microsoft Exchange). You can also use the libraries to build client side tools / adapters (such as the Evolution-MAPI plugin for Evolution). The server is pre-alpha. It is not yet suitable for production - it is only a developer preview. The architecture is set up such that clients that implement the Exchange RPC protocols (like Microsoft Outlook, or the openchange client tools, or Evolution) can connect to the openchange server, and that server can (conceptually) connect to anything (and multiple anythings at a time) that the server has a backend storage adapter for. So if you have the SoGo backend, it can connect to SoGo. However there aren't many backends yet. So far we have progress on the SoGo backend (thanks to work by Inverse, and especially Wolfgang Sourdeau) and some internal stuff. Interest in a Caldav backend has been expressed. There is no backend for OpenGroupware or any other groupware server. The openchange project also has some test tools, a proxy server and a few other things. > Is SOGo recommended over other groupware servers for any specific > reason or are they just the group that is working with the OpenChange > developers? See above. > Should SOGo be built from source or can I use a package > manager to install it? The instructions are on the wiki. I haven't tried them though. Brad. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openchange.org/listinfo/devel
