Nextcloud AMA!!

jospoortvliet

@jospoortvliet of course more good things are in development - and as with everything, help welcome

https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar
https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts

Dashrender

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

Frank Karlitschek

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

So it would be possible to implement ActiveSync relatively easy by including projects like zpush. Maybe someone does it. But i'm not sure how useful it is to use the Nextcloud Mailinterface with the Office365 backend. But maybe I'm missing the usecase here

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

Exchange has IMAP natively. So it already works with that natively.

jospoortvliet

So everybody! It's two hours now, we need to recover from this barrage of questions

Thanks a lot for your input, I hope it was interesting and fun!

I'll keep hanging in the forums and you can always ping me, of course. I just need to lie down now

have a good one!

StrongBad

@jospoortvliet Thanks, loads of info here today!

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

Exchange has IMAP natively. So it already works with that natively.

Does Exchange's IMAP supports calendar and contacts? I was under the impression that the only way to get that from Exchange was AS or CardDAV/CalDAV? and those DAV things aren't real time bi-directional syncing.

Minion Queen

We had fun thanks @jospoortvliet @Frank-Karlitschek & @LukasReschke !!!

travisdh1

Back to the SQRL thing for a sec. Where would someone go to start looking at and/or contributing to the code base?

Dashrender

@Frank-Karlitschek said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

So it would be possible to implement ActiveSync relatively easy by including projects like zpush. Maybe someone does it. But i'm not sure how useful it is to use the Nextcloud Mailinterface with the Office365 backend. But maybe I'm missing the usecase here

The use case as I see it here is that someone wants to use Exchange email (hosted Exchange) from MS ($4/u/m) but none of the rest of the services.. say they want to have NC in their own DC. So they could use the email client in NC to access Hosted Exchange and have NC right there next to it for file hosting and LO for creating/editing/reading attachments.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

Exchange has IMAP natively. So it already works with that natively.

Does Exchange's IMAP supports calendar and contacts? I was under the impression that the only way to get that from Exchange was AS or CardDAV/CalDAV? and those DAV things aren't real time bi-directional syncing.

IMAP is a standard protocol. There are not "Exchange IMAP" versions or it would not be IMAP. IMAP is a mailbox transport protocol only. It's never attempted to tackle any other functionality nor should it as there are other protocols for that.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

Exchange has IMAP natively. So it already works with that natively.

Does Exchange's IMAP supports calendar and contacts? I was under the impression that the only way to get that from Exchange was AS or CardDAV/CalDAV? and those DAV things aren't real time bi-directional syncing.

IMAP is a standard protocol. There are not "Exchange IMAP" versions or it would not be IMAP. IMAP is a mailbox transport protocol only. It's never attempted to tackle any other functionality nor should it as there are other protocols for that.

Right, so you just ignored the for all of that goodness? portion of my post.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

Exchange has IMAP natively. So it already works with that natively.

Does Exchange's IMAP supports calendar and contacts? I was under the impression that the only way to get that from Exchange was AS or CardDAV/CalDAV? and those DAV things aren't real time bi-directional syncing.

IMAP is a standard protocol. There are not "Exchange IMAP" versions or it would not be IMAP. IMAP is a mailbox transport protocol only. It's never attempted to tackle any other functionality nor should it as there are other protocols for that.

Right, so you just ignored the for all of that goodness? portion of my post.

But I answered the question. If you ask what IMAP supports, the answer will always be the same. IMAP is a mailbox protocol.

Minion Queen

as per @JK74

JK74 about an hour ago

I'm in the Netherlands and as such mo focus is Dutch localized support for our Church members.
I notice now that I'm struggling to get some e-mail templates changed in Dutch Language ; and I see as well other client GUI text still is in English; is there a way we can help or report those defects or is local localization support a low fruit?

JK74

@jospoortvliet Thanks! Is there any release date? Or preview client? It was announced last week but the update is not yet showing up on the beta directory listing. Cheers!

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Any chance you're working toward an ActiveSync add-in?

I.e. can the email client connect natively with O365 or Exchange for all of that goodness?

Exchange has IMAP natively. So it already works with that natively.

Does Exchange's IMAP supports calendar and contacts? I was under the impression that the only way to get that from Exchange was AS or CardDAV/CalDAV? and those DAV things aren't real time bi-directional syncing.

IMAP is a standard protocol. There are not "Exchange IMAP" versions or it would not be IMAP. IMAP is a mailbox transport protocol only. It's never attempted to tackle any other functionality nor should it as there are other protocols for that.

Right, so you just ignored the for all of that goodness? portion of my post.

Unfortunately Exchange doesn't implement standard protocols.

jospoortvliet

@JK74 said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

@jospoortvliet Thanks! Is there any release date? Or preview client? It was announced last week but the update is not yet showing up on the beta directory listing. Cheers!

2.3 test client should be there, see https://help.nextcloud.com/t/help-testing-the-2-3-0-desktop-client-beta/8932

jospoortvliet

@Minion-Queen said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

as per @JK74

JK74 about an hour ago

I'm in the Netherlands and as such mo focus is Dutch localized support for our Church members.
I notice now that I'm struggling to get some e-mail templates changed in Dutch Language ; and I see as well other client GUI text still is in English; is there a way we can help or report those defects or is local localization support a low fruit?

we use transifex for translation, help is always welcome!!! https://www.transifex.com/nextcloud/nextcloud/dashboard/

dafyre

@Minion-Queen said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

We had fun thanks @jospoortvliet @Frank-Karlitschek & @LukasReschke !!!

Thanks for coming out y'all!

zowee

Going away from the open core was the right step. Still, Nextcloud (.com) is owned by the Nextcloud GmbH, will there ever be non-profit organization or a foundation that holds all the trademarks and domains.