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Setting up the sieve rule means I have to have the password and set all of that up.

Using the "mailing list" settings means I don't have to do any of that, don't need to create an inbox, and it doesn't need to be owned by any accounts (and cloudron users with email admin / admin / superadmin can modify as needed).

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So I guess I answered my own question 🙂 I'll write it up. for people who ask in the future. "How do I set up email forwarding to external accounts without having to provision Cloudron accounts" == mailing list.

@luckow thanks for the SoGo -- looks like that does take care of everything.

Thank you @girish, this worked for me too 🙂

Only recently did Calendar and aliases start working reliably in the Cloudron SOGo package. I think mailbox sharing still doesn't work but it's in our TODO list.

Because of this, my personal and cloudron.io email setup doesn't use SOGo. @nebulon and I both use thunderbird for day to day use. We have a rainloop installation just to manage our mail filters (in my personal install, I use roundcube for this instead just for variety 🙂 ). This too was because thunderbird's sieve extension was previously not working with Cloudron Email. That problem has since been fixed but thunderbird's sieve extension is not very user friendly, so we stick to rainloop/roundcube. For calendar/contacts, we use our Nextcloud's caldav/carddav. Both Gnome and Thunderbird, have excellent integrations for caldav/carddav. One important consideration here is that we moved out of another provider which let us export carddav. Nextcloud has an importer that works, I haven't tested out the importers of other apps.

Shared mailboxes (like sales@, support@) was quite complicated with thunderbird (because the mail read/unread flag is not per-user). You also have to configure thunderbird to bcc replies so that the other user can see the replies. Recently, we have moved our shared mailboxes to freescout to solve this.

I don't know if this directly answers the question 🙂 I do think if SOGo was in the state it was now when we started, we probably would have used that from the get-go.

@girish Looks like I cannot test it in the demo environment - it won't let me setup the calendar.
The issue I am having now is that the Apple calendar creates another calendar instead of syncing the existing personal calendar. It seems to work for other calendars in the account.

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Any mac user here who can share their config?

The email server (ie imap and smtp server) is the same as the dashboard domain for the time being for all email domains hosted on that Cloudron.

@christiaan oh super cool! Never heard of JMAP before, that looks great.

@3246 There was a bug in the ldap code. See the fix in https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2733/aliases-seem-misconfigured-in-sogo/4

@nebulon Thanks guys, it works. Your support is good! I don't know how many people use cloudron as a private replacement of cloud services, but I think if you get all these details down and everything just works, there's a market for that 🙂

I will mark this as "solved" from our side, as this is SOGo internals and not related to the Cloudron package as such, from what I understand. Thanks for creating the upstream issue.