kolab 3

[Mat Cantin]

On 2013-06-24 4:51, dirk adamsky wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> i am planning a groupware environment for 100 mailboxes/users.
> I am tempted to go for kolab 3 because of roundcube and upcoming
> owncloud integration.
> What i would like to know if kolab 3 is ready for production yet.
> 
> The items of my interest:
> 1. outlook/thunderbird sync

My experience with the Bynari connector for Outlook has been ok except 
for properly sycning calendars and contacts with Roundcube, but it's 
still in Beta as far as I know. I've never managed to get the 
Thunderbird connector working properly, and it's not very user friendly. 
Fortunately, Roundcube is very good and that's what all my users need.

> 2. activesync

Activesync for me works for the most part, but it has been hit and miss 
depending on the device I've used. I have yet to really use it with the 
latest dev version of scycroton so maybe it's better now?

> 3. basic folder and calendar sharing

As long as you use the roundcube interface, sharing of mailboxes, 
calendars and contacts has worked very well in my experience.

A few bugs I've been keeping an eye on that break things in my 
environments:
- Invites sent to recipients using Outlook don't work: 
https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1103
- Wallace may eat your emails and should probably just be turned off in 
production: https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627
- Accepting invites from clients using Outlook and then syncing the 
event to your phone will cause the event to infinitely duplicate in your 
phone's calendar. Haven't seen a bug report for this yet, I guess I 
should make one! :-)

All in all, I think that if you're setting up a production server your 
best bet is to purchase the SLA from Kolabsys so that if you do run into 
some problems, they'll be able to fix it. Also, some of the bugs I 
mentioned may already be fixed in their Enterprise branch. 
http://kolabsys.com/pricing

Cheers.
--
Mat