I think I'm getting it. SOGo or "Exchange" server must be able to communicate with the client (eg Outlook) in order to "push" to it new emails, events etc. In Internet, users rarely have public IP assigned to their computers and in case of NAT the SOGo server is not able to push anything to the client because it doesn't have the direct IP communication. Outlook anywhere solves it by creating some kind of VPN between Outlook and the server. Am I more or less right with this?
If yes, I assume that in this rare case when my notebook would have assigned a public Internet IP, I would be able to connect my Outlook to the Internet-exposed SOGo server and synchronize it (as with Exchange) but it would by simply very unsecure, right? Regards, BK > -----Original Message----- > From: Ludovic Marcotte [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOGo] SOGo Outlook connector > > On 18/01/12 08:52, Bartłomiej Kluska wrote: > > one more time many thanks for such a load of information about Outlook > > compatibility in SOGo2 beta. > > > > Regarding to this stated below (RPC for HTTPS, Outlook anywhere). I don't > > know if I got it right, so please confirm it once more. > > > > Lack of "Outlook anywhere" functionality in the current beta of SOGo2 > > prevents it from being able to use it outside LAN? > > What LAN means in this case, one, the same broadcast domain? > > So I wouldn't be able to use it in example in routed corporate network? > It would work in a routed network. It would even work if the server was > exposed entirely on the Internet but of course, that's far from being a > good practice. > > Let's say I take the current SOGo2 and open it to Internet and assign to it > > a public domain. Will hosts with outlook clients located in the > Internet be able to connect to this server as to Exchange server (like for > example to IMAP)? > Yes but it would be very insecure and might not traverse firewalls well. > For this, there is "Outlook Anywhere", and it'll likely be our next big > endeavor once we get the first end-user consumable version of our native > Outlook compatibility layer out. > > Thanks, > > -- > Ludovic Marcotte > [email protected] :: +1.514.755.3630 :: www.inverse.ca > Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence > (www.packetfence.org) > > -- > [email protected] > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
