Kolab Now vs Kolab groupware

[Rickard Osser]

Hi,

To make autodiscover work with Kolab 16 just create 2 records in DNS
for the domain you need.


autodscover	CNAME	<mailhost>
autoconfig	CNAME	<mailhost>

That will make both Tbird and Outlook automatically find the
configuration for IMAP/SMTP. This is build into Kolab.

It also works for ActiveSync clients (IOS/Android).

There are more DNS settings that you can use for Outlook which is
listed in O365 if you're interested.

Best regards,

Rickard


On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 21:52 -0800, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> Hi Milan.
> 
> Comments inline.
> 
> On 2020-01-05 4:28 a.m., Milan Petrovic wrote:
> > Really great response, reflects pretty accurate the situation with
> > MS 
> > Exchange vs. Kolab.
> > Wanted to add my experience. I'm not used to running MS Exchange
> > and 
> > have limited knowledge of Outlook (I was using it in a corporate 
> > environment but not recently, so I don;t remember much about it -
> > the 
> > only feature I used a lot there was to "send a message at a later 
> > date/time, this can be, sort of, done in Thunderbird, but it's a 
> > client side feature and you have to have your client open and
> > running 
> > in order to have it working as intended).
> > I love that Kolab supports Activesync. Most of the mobile clients
> > are 
> > connected that way to my Kolab instances: I have a 3.4 instance and
> > a 
> > Winterfell one. Both instances have Seafile "attached" for
> > enhanced 
> > file sharing capabilities and the Winterfell has Collabora office. 
> > Tech savvy users love to use things online: they access the mail 
> > through Roundcube, file sharing through Seafile, etc. They love
> > the 
> > Collabora integration. Non tech savvy people are using clients,
> > mostly 
> > through mobile and their usage is usually pretty basic.
> 
> It would be great to have some Collabora integration.  Have you
> tried 
> integrating Kolab and Nextcloud together?
> 
> > What I find as an issue with Kolab to gain more traction is, as
> > Mihai 
> > said, the need to use the web client in order to manage the mail 
> > account. There is no other way to set the filters server wide for 
> > example. Also, there is no way to apply tagging with filters - a 
> > feature I miss a lot.
> > Sharing of resources is also very weird: if there is a calendar or
> > any 
> > other resource shared between people, the resource will be shown
> > to 
> > other people in a folder like structure with its full path (if I
> > have 
> > "My Calendar" and I create a new one, "Meetings", and share it
> > with 
> > another user, and they enable it in folder settings to be visible, 
> > they'd see below their "My calendar" a number of nested grayed out 
> > folders like "Calendars \ shared \ Owners username \ " and then
> > the 
> > "Meetings" calendar as a subfolder of the last one - it's just 
> > confusing for non-tech-savvy people). This also goes for other 
> > shared 
> > resources/folders. Same visibility happens if you create a shared 
> > resource through the admin interface - you see the full hierarchy
> > path 
> > of the shared resource in Roundcube. In general, calendar
> > management 
> > is a bit of a pain if you go beyond "each user uses his own
> > calendar 
> > through Roundcube".
> 
> That is how Roundcube shows Calendars?  That sounds like a bug. Why
> list 
> an object in the interface that you have no access to.
> 
> > File sharing to external users needs to be done through the
> > Seafile 
> > interface - this also needs a bit of explaining to users, but they
> > get 
> > it (at least in my case).
> > Now, I haven't tried Outlook with Kolab, but things do work without
> > it 
> > for me.
> > I also have a number of external services relying on Kolab's LDAP, 
> > like Matrix/Riot for communication (chat/voice/video - I've picked 
> > Matrix as it was the only solution with mobile clients actually 
> > ringing like a phone when you do an audio call, but in general I'm 
> > very happy with it and how it handles security). Matrix has LDAP 
> > integration that syncs well, but it is a rudimentary
> > implementation. 
> > It took me days to make it work and as the LDAP implementation is
> > not 
> > actively worked on some features work better than the others (I
> > can 
> > create and  authenticate users, but still cannot pull all the user 
> > data about them beside the username so this has to be manually
> > added 
> > after the user logs in for the first time).
> > I ended up writing a manual with around 30 pages, in English, that 
> > every user receives on their account creation, explaining how to
> > use 
> > the entire 'system' of apps.
> > 
> > Despite the issues above I still love Kolab and all the features
> > it 
> > gives out of the box. Winterfell is a visible step-up with
> > constant 
> > updates and I hope the issues I have mentioned will be ironed out
> > in 
> > the future. Web client is beautiful. It's better to view it as an 
> > alternative to Google's Gmail and O365 than to Exchange 
> > server/Outlook. All the people using it mostly through web love it 
> > also. The office documents collaborative editing also works and
> > makes 
> > it even more a viable alternative to Gmail/O365. Anyway, I'll 
> > definitely keep using it. I hope this has helped you.
> > 
> Thanks for you feedback.  As I mentioned with Mihai, I created a
> document.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UtZXATe_qRw1UJWluT9ABq6hkd4OcoBf33bjZ7o6sXc/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> Maybe we could start piecing things together a bit more.
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
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