Hello again, i would like to tell you about what i have done on my PiDrive
since it's arrived at Home shortly before Christmas. I hadn't this much time
but one of my personal primary goals was it to get to use a Device working,
which will hold all my personal data in form of E-Mails, Calendar and Contact
Data. I know basically OwnCloud can do this but the E-Mail Client in OwnCloud
is very limited in the form that he does not integrate calendar and contact
modules directly. So i was in search for alternative and found Zarafa or short
ZCP. ZCP will be a complete replacement for Outlook on the Desktop and can sync
to any Smartphone out of the Box via Exchange ActiveSync. I have used Zarafa
before on other Platforms like some vServer's. There are ready made Packets for
installing from the Zarafa Team itself, but only for some widespread Platforms
like Ubuntu, RedHat and so on. For all other you can self-build the Packages
from Source. I failed with this on Raspbian but found ready Packets for Arch
Linux. So i made a new Base Image with Arch and installed the Zarafa Packages.
The first try to setup the Server fails, because the Class 4 SD Card was to
slow to insert the initial MySQL DB. Also a Class 6 SD Card was to slow. So i
moved some directory's like /var to the PiDrive HDD and made a Symlink to the
original Path. After this, the first start of zarafa-server Daemon could setup
the DB successfully without any timeout. I didn't know if a Class 10 SD or UHS
I is better. But my personal recommendation is it to have the /var folder on
HDD. This should also increase the lifetime of the SD Card.
After applying the user stores, i import or better migrated my old Data in this
stores. Round about 1GB E-Mail Data, 10.000 Contacts and some Calendar Entry's
are imported. This took some time, since i couldn't use imapsync or other tools.
After setting up the Postfix Server for local delivery, i connected some
external devices for testing purposes. I have tested different Smartphones with
Android, Windows Phone 8.x and Windows Phone 10 and also a PC with Windows 8.1
and Windows 10 build in Client. Alls could sync fine, without error and in
Short time with the build in Clients over Exchange ActiveSync. eM Client 6
works also like a Charm. Outlook starting from Version 2013 can also use out of
the Box ActiveSync with this setup without any Problem. Outlook before this,
can use IMAP for Mails and with a free AddOn sync CalDAV and CardDAV entry's.
The Performance was really good for 5 Users at the same time.
Additionally i have installed Samba to share some files to Windows as a
Datagrave. That gives not the best performance. I think the USB/Network Chip is
limiting the Transfer here. I came up with Data between 13 -
25MB/sec via LAN and 9MB via WLAN.
I hope this isn't completely out of the Scope, since it does not use OwnCloud
at the Moment. However Zarafa uses OwnCloud as Backend for a File Plugin, so
you can automatically save Attachments from Zarafa to OwnCloud or you can share
new Attachments directly from OwnCloud. But i would only share my experience
with PiDrive at this Moment. Next i would like to develop a simple Gallery
AddOn but maybe i choose OwnCloud for this Task. Since i have some pieces of
such a AddOn running on my old setup i would compare Performance and Features
of both and decide after that.
BTW, before i forget: If the Webmail Client of OwnCloud could directly
integrate Calendar and Contacts for setup Meeting Requests and answer of such
Meeting Request, i would give it another Try. Adding Exchange ActiveSync to
this setup should be very easy Task with the help of Z-Push. But without
Meeting Requests, the Webmail Client is useless for me.
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