On 1/20/2011 1:00 PM, Brian Kirkman wrote:
On 1/20/2011 12:29 PM, Donny Brooks wrote:
Ok, so after a year of getting our user base ready to switch from
Seamonkey web/email clients to strictly SOGo web interface we hit a
snag. My supervisor is having a fit over the HTML/text issues with
the web interface of SOGo. So this is leading me to have to look into
the integrator and such for thunderbird. Here are a few questions:
Can you explain the issues with HTML/text a little more? Maybe
someone has some ideas that can bring you back around to the web
interface. (Sorry if I missed an earlier thread.)
Basically my supervisor is upset that we will be delivering "less
functionality" than currently being used. In a typical email client you
compose a message and it is truly WYSIWYG, either text, HTML (colors and
such), or both. In the SOGo web interface if you choose "text" as the
compose message option you obviously lose the option of colors, fonts,
etc because it is just that... text. However the formatting is spot on.
If one chooses HTML it opens up the ability to change colors, font, etc
but appears "double spaced" when it actually is not. Also with the
javascript HTML editor without a firefox plugin to allow javascript
access to the clipboard you cannot right click and copy/cut/paste with
the mouse. I did find the workaround on that with the plugin though,
alas we have some end users that refuse to use anything but IE and I
have yet to have found a work around for that as of yet.
So what they want is a "fat client" email client that will do it all
similar to outlook. I, on the other hand as the administrator, want it
to not affect the size of their roaming profiles by keeping a local copy
of mail on their machines that is written with the profile upon
login/logout. Either way the web interface will be used for remote viewing.
Is there a way to have thunderbird be a TRUE IMAP client and not keep
a local copy of the messages on the local machine? I know about the
"keep a local copy of messages" checkbox but that does not seem to do
anything as even unchecked it seems to download and keep a copy of
the messages locally.
What do I need to install? I am thoroughly confused about the
Integrator/Connector/Lightning stuff as I have mostly overlooked it
since I thought we were going to go straight web interface.
In short, you should install all three on each client. The Integrator
takes care of all the administration, i.e. permissions, ACL control,
etc. The great thing about the Integrator is that when customized, it
is the only extension that needs to be deployed to each Thunderbird
client. The Integrator will then deploy Connector and Lighting
automatically from the SOGo server if you as the admin choose to set
it up that way. You can then push any updates through it as well.
Obviously Lightning adds calendar functionality to Thunderbird. The
Connector takes care of synchronizing calendar and contact data with
the SOGo server. Take a look at the documentation. Once you
understand the basic setup, it will make sense.
http://www.sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGo%20Mozilla%20Thunderbird%20Configuration.pdf
That makes more sense now. Basically I install/configure the integrator
and it does the rest. This should give them similar functionality to
having outlook clients correct? Just without the bloatware that is
outlook :)
I have read the descriptions but am not clear on which one does what
we would need. I want the same functionality of the web interface,
minus the HTML/text email composition issues, but in the thunderbird
client. We need all email, calendar, contacts, etc in the client.
Any guidance is welcome.
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Donny B.
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