@crankshaft said in kopano outlook connector is inferior to zarafa's connector ?:
Thanks Felix;
But the email client has to be Microsoft Outlook which is integrated with Microsoft Office.
Webapp and DeskApp are proprietary and are not fully integrated with MS Office.
No, it’s the other way around, Webapp and DeskApp are OpenSource, MS Outlook & Co. are proprietary.
The reason we started using zarafa originally was because of the good compatibility with MS Outlook and the fact that we did not require a proprietary client to use the features important to us, i.e shared emails, calendars and contacts.
Shared emails, calendars and contacts are working very well with Webapp and/or DeskApp.
Asking users to use 2 email clients, outlook and webapp is also quite impractical.
And DeskApp is even better integrated into the operating system than WebApp, regarding file download, mail standard application etc. It becomes more difficult if you are dependent on Outlook because of special Outlook plugins (CRM, ERP, UC, …), whereby Kopano integration (in somewhat larger environments) for third party systems usually with reasonable effort is possible because of open Kopano APIs.
The second disadvantage of DeskApp is the lack of offline capability, which, however, with today’s mobile connection options, is no longer really a major issue in most cases.
These discussions & considerations have been here for over 3 years since the fork to Kopano…
Regards Robert
