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Obsolete Releases => SME 9.x Contribs => Topic started by: Michail Pappas on March 30, 2016, 11:47:47 AM
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See https://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9384 for an explanation.
Stefano suggested to ask for possible alternatives. Even though I have around webmail 100 users and it would definitely be stressful to switch them to something else, installing SME 8.2 back and trying to backport all my data from 9.2 does not seem a very nice alternative.
My user base is not using any ohter Horde feature (calendar, shared contacts etc) except email.
However, the domain of the mail server is domainA.gr, meaning new web accounts are of the form user@domainA.gr. Since user accounts should have accounts of the form user@domainB.gr, from within Horde I configured each of the 100 user accounts (could possibly be done with scripting/MySQL, I know) to have that user@domainB.gr form.
The bottomline is that I am looking for maximum stability Horde alternatives, that have a user interface in Greek, can read the same mailboxes, can be configured to provide different email From: addresses permanently (ie not for one message, but for all), be admin friendly (not around 10000 dependencies, that might break SME) and be user friendly. With that order I guess.
From a nice chat I had with Stefano, roundcube comes as a possible alternative. Discuss pls.
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SOGo is quite nice. I don't use horde anymore since I've switched to SOGo 6 years ago (I mean myself, but also all my customers)
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I added the requirement to have a Greek user interface on the client.
Regarding my requirements, does Sogo fit the bill?
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Reading mailboxes should not be a factor for any sensible system, as they'll simply connect via IMAP, and the IMAP server will handle the mailboxes.
As to the other requirements, I think Horde 5 will meet them. John Bennett has packaged some RPMs, and seems to keep them fairly up-to-date. You can find them here: https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,50969.msg257624.html#msg257624
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As to the other requirements, I think Horde 5 will meet them. John Bennett has packaged some RPMs, and seems to keep them fairly up-to-date. You can find them here: https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,50969.msg257624.html#msg257624
Nice to hear that. I'll look into that too.
Have there been any "policy" (sortof) decisions, regarding the future of SME and the mail/groupware that will be used?
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From a nice chat I had with Stefano, roundcube comes as a possible alternative. Discuss pls.
I'd also suggest you have a look at roundcube. I haven't looked at it for a while, but it seems slick and seems to be maintained.
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I'll install roundcube for some pilot test today.
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Well, the excellent wiki article at https://wiki.contribs.org/RoundCube helped me install RoundCube in no time. I made a small number of test cases, and it was easy to add additional email identities. Horde has the upper hand in this respect, requiring email verification for the new identity to take effect.
The need to view digitally signed messages forced my hand to put roundcube into production rather fast. I hope that all goes well.
It's amazing how easy it was to jump from one platform to the other. Love open source :)