[ale] Why Run your own email server?

[DJ-Pfulio]

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?