Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

From: Adam Tauno Williams (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2007 - 14:29:26 EST

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    > > This describes exactly the point of view of administrative staff. They
    > > live in Microsoft Office, and they need a server to support it. That is
    > > the assignment given.
    > > I was looking at Open-Xchange on the web <http://www.open-xchange.com/>.
    > > The server provides webmail and MAPI interfaces. The "Hosting Edition"
    > > (and maybe the others, it is not clear) can talk to Cyrus and includes
    > > ACL support.
    > > (We're still running both Exchange for admin staff and Cyrus for the
    > > much larger university community of faculty and students.)
    > Perhaps things have improved since my last foray into this area, but
    > I've yet to find an "outlook connector" that was stable and didn't
    > corrupt the hell out of the users PST. And at least with the Kolab

    Never had a corrupt PST using ZideLook (the Outlook plugin for
    OpenGroupware). Make sue they provide a *real* MAPI provider for
    outlook and not some background sync thingy (as several Open Source
    Outlook connectors do or at least did).

    > groupware product when I reviewed it, they made several architecture
    > decisions that completely killed performance and then they went on to
    > trivialize my concerns. Storing calendar objects as binary attachments
    > in an IMAP store, effectively making them unsearchable, meant that every
    > calendar access had to pull the entire store down, process it and
    > display it. Not cool.

    Yep, the Kolab architecture goes in the "what are you, nuts?" column.



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