>> The open source eco-system has failed to produce useful alternatives to >> Outlook/Exchange(Online) or GSuite. > > Never having had to use either in anger, or had the perspective of an SMB, > what is missing from the open source offerings ?
Calendar. Calendar delegation. Calendar sharing. Delegtion of access to mailboxes. Access to shared mailboxes (I know that Dovecot handles that, but how many Dovecot admins know that and can manage it in a scalable way?) > As far as I can see Exchange does some calendaring which only works with > Outlook > and which has always looked like the tail wagging the dog from my perspective > (why would I change my entire mail system to use a calendaring system ?). Because people do not want mail, they want mail and calendar and authentication and access and delegation, and integration with their business apps and their mobile devices … Yes, Exchange is awfully poor in how it handles this and how you have to manage it. (And GSuite is not really better. And Apple has a lot to catch up to.) Overall, the state of affairs is truly awful. It’s so awful that even I have to admit that Microsoft is doing it better than anybody else and that you should definitely migrate your collaboration to Microsoft. And yes, I’m painfully aware that Microsoft commercially has no problems to use their market power and to leverage licensing terms *just* to the point where it starts to hurt *really* bad. But all other competitors, including open source alternatives, have failed miserably. — Matthias _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
