Group-Office (Sogo/Nextcloud Alternative + ActiveSync)

[MooCloud_Matt]

Hi everyone,
I started looking for possible solutions to the problem we are having in building the image of Sogo with ActiveSync and not finding a solution (if you want to try to help, find the issue here).

So I looked for an alternative:
What do you think of GroupOffice?

They have a rather complete free version, with modules:

• e-mail (Sieve, Multiple mail for account)
• list itemcontacts
• list itemcalendar
• list itemfile (webdav compatible)
• list itemactivesync (with also a module to control activesync)

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• The sharing system is very complete like that of sogo, there can be email accounts, calendars, address book and shared drives.

it is entirely written in PHP so creating a dockerimage should not be a problem, the only disadvantage is that the developers are not very active even if they continue to release bugfixes, they do not have deadlines for new features.

[jdaviescoates]

Looks useful
https://www.group-office.com/
https://sourceforge.net/p/group-office/code/HEAD/tree/

[A Former User]

Sounds interesting, especially because of Active Sync. But the Pro Version is required.

You can optionally install ActiveSync support. You need the professional version of Group-Office for this to work. This functionality will be added through the installation of Z-Push. Proceed to the Z-push installation page.

https://www.group-office.com/wiki/ActiveSync

[murgero]

Interesting find - If it is all PHP based, the the LAMP app can help test and get a feel for all the features. Looks like there is a pro license you can get for more features too.

The lamp app will work but the tnef, poppler-utils packages will need to be installed to get all the free features working. These packages only affect PDF and winmail.dat readability.

[MooCloud_Matt]

@Captain-Kirk the wiki is deprecated, active sync is a free protocol now, no more licence from Microsoft needed, i have it installed for testing and its work.

Collabora is in the pro version.

[marcusquinn]

Looks like it's matured a lot over the years since we first used this many years ago, nice clean and modern interface — the Studio is excellent and available in self-hosted (with a Pro licence, unlike Odoo where it's only available with their SaaS).

• https://www.group-office.com/professional

Docker install:

• https://groupoffice.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/docker.html

TBH, the way they are offering everything installed open-source, with a 60-day trial of pro features — and relatively affordable for a business licence to respect the costs of support and evolving — it seems to be a fair and sustainable way to conduct open-source business — that seems to have resulted in a good looking, regularly updated, documented, supported, and sustainable product.

from me

Now, it only stands a chance of packaging if someone here is interested and motivated. Anyone?

[christianosuizo]

Re: Group-Office (Sogo/Nextcloud Alternative + ActiveSync)

I am new to this forum and somehow cannot figure out how to vote for Group-Office to become a Cloudron App. Can anybody give a helpful hint, how to do it ?

[nebulon]

@christianosuizo hi and welcome. Use the vote button on the first topic in the thread:

But we also use commenting as an activity indicator