Dear Philippe,
Thank you very much for your quick answers.
I did read about the resources issue (because of the connection which
would stay open), to be honest that's not a major concern to me since it
would be for a very limited number of users.
As you can see in my first mail, I already have a caldav in place.
Most of my users are either happy with the webmail or with thunderbird.
For my users on windows who prefer outlook, they are using the
synchronizer plugin since several months, it mostly work but outlook
keep sending cancellation notification to every attendee each time there
is a little change on a schedule event.
I've read a lot of thread about that on ms community forum but couldn't
find a solution to this issue.
As you can imagine, it's really a disrupting workflow from a user
experience.
And I still need a solution that would work for outlook on osx/ios.
This is tricky because it's a request from the direction.
I did installed the caldav using apple's integrated calendar but they
are not happy to have to use several software when they already have a
calendar in outlook which they are used to (they come from a previous
company where they were using exchange servers).
I know I'm looking for a unicorn, but I have to look for real since I
would really avoid migrating to ms exchange.
As I understand now, because it's only EAS & not EWS, activesync will
not help to sync outlook on mac osx, it's only a solution for mobile.
So I have to look further for another solution.
Thanks again.
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Jérôme
On 2023-12-28 15:21, Philippe Gilbert wrote:
Dear Jérôme
Active Sync works well if you have a limited (not millions) number of
users, it just requires more server ressources (we have a Cloud based
environment for thousand of mailboxes)
For Outlook, our users use the free Outlook Caldav Synchronizer
There's an active sync package on SOGo as this is not mandatory and a
lot of deployment just use CALDav/Cardav with Thunderbird, MailMac,
iPhone or Android, it's just more efficient than ActiveSync
Hope it helps
Philippe
Le 28 déc. 2023 à 02:44, Jérôme Melis ([email protected])
<[email protected]> a écrit :
Dear Bruno,
thank you very much for your insights.
I would rather like to avoid outlook as I know by experience how much
of a nightmare it can be.
But if I don't find a solution quickly, I'm afraid the direction will
order a migration to MS exchange with all the headaches that implies.
I've looked at openchange a bit and it seems it does all the work, so
I'm not sure why there's a sogo package named activesync nor why I
would need sogo in the first place if all it does is to delegate the
feature I'm looking for to a 3rd party groupware.
That new requirements I have sound hopeless and that truly scares me
but well... I've got to do my job so I'll keep digging for a solution.
Have a great day.
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On 27/12/2023 15:38, Bruno CAPELETO ([email protected])
wrote: Dear Jérôme,
I have been using SOGo for years, including ActiveSync.
My experience with the ActiveSync protocol is not good ; it always
brake down especially with iPhone devices.
Whether it comes from SOGo, from iPhone, or whatever is never clear.
To me - as a non-specialist - this protocol is bullshit.
Regarding the users of Outlook : we have been spending more than 15
years trying to get this shit work.
It simply does not. And the issue is not SOGo, or ActiveSync, or
whatever.
It even does not work with MS365 : there is always from time to time a
big crash.
I know users loves it - when it works. That is the issue. But there is
no way to get something stable over time with Outlook.
To get more in technical details, you have to set up ActiveSync
according to the guide.
It is not installed when you install SOGo.
Kind regards,
Bruno Capeleto
Le 26/12/2023 à 06:13, Jérôme Melis ([email protected]) a écrit :
Hi,
I'm interested in the SOGo groupware solution but I need to understand
it better before deciding if our institute will switch to this
solution.
So far we are using a postfix/dovecot mail server, roundcube is our
webmail.
We also have a calendar solution which is synchronizing via caldav.
The problem with our current solution is it's not covering all our user
needs.
Some people are using outlook on a mac (or iphone) where there isn't
support for plugins, which means the caldav is unsupported too.
I see SOGo can use ActiveSync to solve this.
But I'm not familiar with ActiveSync.
And when checking the official documentation, I only see "Outlook
Connector Configuration Guide" while v3 of SOGo was offering a "Native
Microsoft Outlook Configuration Guide".
I did made a temporary test with the nightly build and I could
successfully connect to our self-hosted sogo server which is using
postfix's database for auth.
But from there I'm not sure what to do the next.
When pointing outlook to that host, it gives me the error: "Log onto
Exchange ActiveSync mail server (EAS): The server cannot be found."
I suppose I'm missing some understanding of the overall architecture
for this to work.
I'm confused, is this activesync feature still available?
Is it possible to plug outlook via activesync directly to the sogo
server (which will retreive user data from postfix database) or do I
have to install a fake ldap/openchange server and duplicate my user
database?
Thanks for your help.
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Jérôme
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