[Owncloud] Email handling in ownCloud

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Jon Spriggs <jon at sprig.gs>:

> If you're looking for a mail service, hosted by you, then implement
> something like Citadel, or Horde, or any of the handful of webmail or
> web based groupware suites. Most of these implement their own mail
> backend, or use the server's own mail server, and are more likely to
> be kept up to date for that suite of tools than something which is
> bolted on "because it's cool".
>
> If you're looking for something which is integrated with webdav and
> caldav, Horde's groupware suite provides a caldav service for the
> calendaring, can read another caldav service (so could poll OwnCloud),
> and also has it's own service for interacting with WebDav (called
> Gollem), so why not just use that?
>
> I think there's a lot of features that OwnCloud are re-implementing,
> that horde already has done, and I'm surprised the two projects aren't
> looking to each other to see how they could complement each other -

Who said we don't look? ;)

> especially as Horde already has contact syncing, calendaring and mail
> (using SyncML or their own XMLRPC service), they provide file store
> access (webdav, ftp, sftp, local file store, and database backed file
> store), photo galleries, a wiki service, ticket tracking and lots,
> no.... really, LOTS more.

The one problem Horde has is definitely the aged interface. A good  
reason for looking over at ownCloud :)

So far there wasn't much time for investigating where things could  
easily be bridged. I'm specifically interested in looking at  
integration points when it comes to Horde/Kolab/ownCloud - within  
Horde I'm the Horde/Kolab guy.

I do hope I find real coding time for this soon.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> It's licensed under the Apache license (http://www.horde.org/licenses/apache)
>
> So far, for me, the main benefits to OwnCloud over horde is the music
> service, and the relative lack of complexity, but if you start adding
> all the rest of this stuff in, you'll need to be as complex as Horde
> is.
> --
> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
>
>
>
> On 7 November 2011 21:25, Mario Danic <mario.danic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To be honest - and I'm just a bystander that hasn't implemented  
>> anything yet: I like the idea of having everything hosted by  
>> ownCloud, including
>> my email. While some people might not want that, just like  
>> everything else in OwnCloud it could be optional.
>>
>> If anybody wants to work on a webmail interface, I am more than  
>> willing to lead the development of an automated mail server  
>> installation script, and
>> the documentation that might be needed (like how to set DNS, etc).
>>
>> I do not expect this webmail interface to be the best in the world  
>> - I'd rather have it nice, simple and elegant, so I can check and  
>> answer mails while
>> on the go.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
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