No lies, 2 weeks ago I didn't know anything about postfix, cyrus, how to setup an ldap server, sasl or anything related to a 'business linux mail server'..... and thanksfully, with alot of effort, I managed to learn about all of those modules and setup a working lab composed of postfix, cyrus-imap, ldap, sogo, sasl and some startls etc etc. I just finished making everything work with the thunderbird addon today and I must admit that I find this alternative very interesting so far !! :)
Thanks alot for this :D to get back on the topic, I would admit that it is a little hard to find good information that looks like 'course' or good tutorial that really covers everything. I believe that this is simply because all those things are heavily configurable and most of the tutorial I saw lacked alot of information. Hell, just postfix in itself is a beast when it comes down to the amount of possible option settings there is! I personally chose self training, by reading alot of the original manual, mixed with a few trial errors from some tutorials, more reading! and well, make a lab with some vm (I use virtual box..) and fix some objective... Then in the process you might have a better idea of what kind of course you're looking for and might even find it yourself ;p hehe, well that was just my 2 cents. no need to flame me on that :D in the process of building sogo I figured out that there is so much différent things you can use... Just as an example, I found out that you have Directory389, slapd, apacheDS or even freeipa. Oh well, sorry for the lack of reference, and good luck :) Jonathan G. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Steven Swarts <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Wayland Sothcott <[email protected]>> On 26/06/2013 06:35, > Steven Swarts wrote: > >> G'day guys >>> >>> I've been following SOGo for awhile now, used the ZEG and played with >>> the tutorial that Oliver has kindly made available. >>> >>> My question is I have access to a vast amount of small businesses that I >>> currently support and would love to support in the area of an Exchange >>> alternative. But my reluctance is that I don't understand SOGo, OpenChange, >>> Dovecot, Samba4, Sope, etc. I was wondering if anyone knew or could tell me >>> where I could get training in this area. >>> >>> Currently I have a basic understanding of Linux, but I'm looking for a >>> cutting edge education. The local education places only support Samba3 >>> which annoys me to no end. >>> >>> So in a nutshell, if I were to do some courses (online preferably) what >>> is the recommendation? >>> >>> Also I just want to say brilliant venture, I love Linux so keep up the >>> great work. >>> >> Hello Steven, >> >> I have been following SOGo for several months now and played with the ZEG >> and tried to add SOGo to a Debian server. I think there is a long way to go >> with this before I can use it and I don't think it's a matter of training. >> I have used ClearOS 5.2 successfully for small businesses. With it's web >> interface it's very easy to get it to do all the things it's capable of >> such as file sharing, email and hosting the companies website. (I can't say >> the same about ClearOS 6) >> >> The 'Internet' defines lots of things for us, like how websites work, how >> email works and how DNS works. What it does not define is how address books >> work. All I want is a simple centralised database of email addresses that >> is shared by all email users in the company. >> >> Back in the 90's there was a fantastic thing called Lotus Notes which was >> the ultimate groupware. There are no open standards to let you create one >> in Linux. Whare are the IMAP and SMTP protocols for address books and >> calendars? >> >> I have no idea why people would create standards such as IMAP yet not >> carry on and create standards for address books. Unless it's so that >> Microsoft Exchange has no competitor in the Open Source area. >> >> Regards, >> Wayland. >> >> (Someone please correct me if I am wrong) >> >> >> -- >> >> Mobile: 07925 431381 >> Office: 01787 388165 >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists >> >> Well currently i use Horde Webmail groupware. It supports CalDav and > CardDav plus active sync capabilities with iOS and Android up to AS 14.1 > > But SOGo and the native Outlook support is a winner in my books, plus > coupled with Samba 4 and goodbye Microsoft in a couple of years I would say. > > The trick I'm sure is to know how to set it up, but most importantly how > to keep it running. > > Anyway I hoping that someone has an answer for my original question. > > Regards, > Steven Swarts > Swarts IT > > Wayland Sothcott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -- > [email protected] > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists > -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
