Hello Elías Halldór Ágústsson

Am 2014-06-12 15:09, schrieb Elías Halldór Ágústsson:
> [email protected] skrifaði:
>> We currently use 3 imap based mail servers on
>> FreeBSD. I have been tasked with creating a new more modern email
>> infrastructure with features that exchange holds, however the
>> financial cost
>> of exchange is significant and management would prefer going with an
>> "open
>> source" solution based on Linux.
>>
>> After some playing around, I think that Sogo is the route, replacing
>> the 3
>> mail servers with 1 inside our HO.
> 
> We have a "murder" of cyrus imapd servers on our site and several SMTP
> hosts. We use SOGo only as a front-end for users who haven't figured out
> this mail client thing.
> 

IMHO the complexity of a murder setup is not necessary for 300 users ;-)

In my experience young people tend to use "the internet" (which means
browser for them) only.
They are no longer familiar with installing and configuration of local
applications like email clients.
Because of that the use of web based services is increasing.
This also means, that our SOGo service is used more and more here at the
University of Konstanz.


>> My user's currently are pop'ing their mail onto their laptops etc,
>> there for
>> contacts, calendar and mail are sitting locally in their machines.
>> This brings
>> me to my question, is there a possibility of import their existing PST
>> files
>> into Sogo? or what would be the best solution for getting the mail
>> into their
>> sogo account?
> 
> Isn't that a client issue? Most email clients can do that. And you
> should really inform your users about the wonders of IMAP and try to ban
> POP altogether ... it should have died years ago.
> 

As arguments pro IMAP mention:
* centralized backup and restore of all emails.
* access from different machines (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone)


Kind regards,
Christian Mack

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Christian Mack
Universität Konstanz
Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
Abteilung Basisdienste
78457 Konstanz
+49 7531 88-4416

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