Are you using Active directory to mange your exchange users? If so you can point SOGo at your AD server and manage your users the same way you always have.
I think rolling cyrus + postfix + OpenChange is an uphill battle. And it won't provide you with an admin tool. Also, are you sure your users don't want/use calendars and contacts? I like sleep too, Mark -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [SOGo] Help needed, making a real admin tool for SOGO, needs commands. Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013 03:48 PM CST From: administrator <administra...@flmiami.com> > Me personally, it's a personal quest to abolish all things not open source > from my workplace (I'm the IT admin/programmer/database/mail guy). I've got > spiceworks taking care of watching my network and inventory, and exchange > deciding not to send mail on random days at around 11am without reason or any > real help in the logs. I've already moved from SCO OpenServer 5 -> Ubuntu > 8.04 and had great success, this is the next logical step. > > I knew what it was from the start, it's basically just a webmail type website > that works with a bunch of common mail servers and other projects allowing > for outlook connections. In my case my only benefit would be sleep, and I > like sleeping. I was kind of hoping it would just work like webmin, but I see > your point about people wanting to roll out their own solutions. > > At this point I'm just wondering if I can just do cyrus + postfix + > OpenChange. I only need IMAP,MAPI,SMTP,DNS (to make it independent), backups > and built in authentication. To be honest, the less the better. > > Please correct me if I'm mistaken and cannot do the 3 things above without > sogo gluing them together. I realize some people need a web interface, we got > outlook and phones so we don't need that. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wayland Sothcott [mailto:wayl...@sothcott.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:50 PM > To: users@sogo.nu > Subject: Re: [SOGo] Help needed, making a real admin tool for SOGO, needs > commands. > > On 21/02/2013 18:39, Mark Madere wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have looked through all the posts on this topic and I would like to add > > my two cents (, as we say in the US). I think many people commenting on > > this thread misunderstand SOGo and ZEG. > > > > From the ZEG download page: > > > > "The ZEG (Zero Effort Groupware) edition of SOGo is intended to provide a > > complete out-of-the-box testing environment of SOGo, the Open Source > > messaging and calendaring software." > > > > From the SOGo home page: > > > > "SOGo is fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on > > scalability and open standards. ... SOGo is the missing component of your > > infrastructure; it sits in the middle of your servers to offer your users > > an uniform and complete interface to access their information." > > > > So what does that mean? It means ZEG is a virtual appliance to help you > > understand how SOGo works so you can setup your own servers. It means > > that SOGo is not a mail server. It is not a directory server. It is not a > > database server. It means that it has no users to manage. > > > > If you are looking to use a testing environment like ZEG as a production > > server I think you will be disappointed that it lacks the features required > > for production. If you are looking to build your own production server, > > then SOGo can be a great component along side other components. The beauty > > of SOGo is that it can be configured to work with many systems. And > > because of that there is no way that SOGo can manage users from every > > directory/database/posix/etc. server. It is up to each administrator to > > setup and manage their mail servers, users accounts, databases, etc.. the > > way they want. > > > > I hope this helps clarify what ZEG and SOGo are, and what they are not. > > > > Mark > > > > ps: If you are looking for turn-key solutions that includes SOGo, there are > > companies that can help you with that. If you want to roll your own > > solution and need help Inverse can provide you commercial support. > > > > > > > I think you have explained what we all know very well and it is the problem > we are trying to solve. We want to roll our own turn key solution. > > I don't know where open source software comes from or why. However I think > it's significant that the components are free but putting it together into > something someone can use costs money. > > I want to build servers for my customers and charge them money. However I > don't mind freely helping people with what I have learned so they can build > servers for their customers. > > If someone is making money from charging us server builders money so we can > build servers, they are not going to be very happy if we figure out how to > help each other for free. Hence why ZEG is not a full turn key solution. If > it was an ISO it would be closer, hence it's a VM. > > I think I probably need to change my entire world view. > > > -- > > Mobile: 07925 431381 > Office: 01787 388165 > > -- > users@sogo.nu > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists > -- > users@sogo.nu > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
