[ale] Why Run your own email server?

James Taylor James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
Fri Sep 30 15:38:09 EDT 2016


The mobility connection for groupwise will sync shared calendars to ios and android (windows mobile, but who uses it...?).
Also, you can publish groupwise calendars and subscribe to other public calendars, too. The publishing can be done through the web client, however subscribing currently only works with windows clients.
You can set up moultiple personal calendars and share or publish them individually.
As long as I'm at it...The server runs on SUSE Linux and  the server license is included with the app. (It runs on windows, too, but that's irrelevant to me.)
-jt  
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> 9/30/2016 3:27 PM >>> 
Interesting.

I use lightning with Thunderbird to connect to Zimbra's calendar (and a
few others - like the ALE meetup and my college football team's
calendar. Zimbra has the idea of different calendars, so for a
conference, I'll add a 2-3 day detailed cal and add that to Lightning or
any CalDAV client (like Android).  For addressbook - Thunderbird does
LDAP queries directly. That works fine on the LAN, but not-so-great over
the WAN due to latency.

Just showing that all options have trade-offs.

Been playing with NextCloud Calendar and Contacts today. Meh.  Figure I
must be doing it wrong.




On 09/30/2016 02:57 PM, James Taylor wrote:
> Yes. You just configure with secure imap/smtp.
> No address book or calendar sync for thunderbird, unless you know of dav clients that will work. I've heard that people have success with lightning, but I haven't tried it.
> evolution may still do the addressbook and calendar, but I think that may have been pulled in later releases.
> You can connect using outlook natively (with some additional configuration), but not as fully featured, though you still have calendar and contact sync.
> 
> outlook 2013 will work with the mobile agents. 
>  
> 
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> 
> 
> 
>>>> DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> 9/30/2016 1:51 PM >>> 
> Thanks. Groupwise is commercial from Novell, right?  Looks like the
> clients are java-based. Can normal clients be used - thunderbird,
> outlook, evolution?
> -jt
> 
> 
> Zimbra works with any clients, but their webclient is completely
> awesome, for those who like webmail. I only use it to manage server-side
> filters. They don't have a thick-client anymore. It was a typical,
> bloated, Java application and best to let it die.
> 
> 
> On 09/30/2016 01:14 PM, James Taylor wrote:
>> I use GroupWise, which has a linux, windows and mac clients.
>> The mac client is horrible, but is has a caldav/carddav agent, so I use the native macmail, adressbook and contacts apps on those macs.
>> -jt
>>  
>>
> 
>> What do you use for calendar and addressbooks?
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