The latest developments in Open-Xchange 6.20

The Mailman

Article from ADMIN 04/2011

By Thomas Drilling

The latest release of Open-Xchange collaboration server includes new interfaces, such as MAPI support for Outlook and the ability to connect to mobile devices. In this article, we look at the new features and explain how to install the community version.

According to figures released by Open-Xchange (OX) [1], they are the leading international technology supplier for hosted groupware, with more than 24 million users. Customers of Internet provider 1&1, for example, will be familiar with the software under the name of 1&1 Webmail and 1&1 MailXchange. On top of the 2.5 million 1&1 customers, another 1.4 million users with Host Europe, and 40,000 root and vServers at Intergenia AG were recently added. The company is intensifying its international business, and it acquired new customers in North America and Great Britain at the beginning of this year.

These major customers still don't account for the 24 million users that the Open-Xchange managers claim, but widespread use does make the value of the SaaS variant of the product within the company very clear.

Instead of relying on the servers, users can install Open-Xchange themselves, either adding commercial support or running the free community version. In this article, I will focus on deploying and integrating the server/community edition and will look at communication with Outlook. Other articles have looked at the user side of the story, and the excellent user manuals [2] provide additional explanation. In line with this, I will only be looking at the GUI side of the story where it relates to new features in OX 6.20.

Product Family

When choosing a product, administrators can select from three variants. Besides the hosting version, which is mainly intended for providers, you can choose the server or advanced server versions. The community version [3] is similar to the server version and has no restrictions with respect to functional scope, but it does not offer any support. Additionally, all of the

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