[GroupDAV] ANN: SOGo Integrator v0.66

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the first release of the "SOGo
Integrator" extension for Thunderbird to the general public.

=== What is the SOGo Integrator ===

This extension transforms Thunderbird in a pure "heavy" client for
SOGo. Whereas the SOGo Connector is meant for portability ("horizontal
integration"), the SOGo Integrator makes use of the features and
layout of SOGo only ("vertical integration").

With this, it achieves the following:
* remote administration of folder subscriptions
* an automatic replication of your local and subscribed folders
* when correctly setup, it handles the propagation of updates to
chosen extensions from a local update server
* automatic propagation of default settings

More information can be found on our website :

http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo_integrator.html

=== What is SOGo ===

SOGo is a free and modern scalable groupware server. It offers shared
calendars, address books and emails through your favorite Web browser
or by using a native client such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning.

SOGo is standard-compliant and supports CalDAV, CardDAV, GroupDAV and
reuses existing IMAP, SMTP and database servers - making the solution
easy to deploy and interoperable with many applications.

SOGo features :

* Scalable architecture suitable for deployments from dozen to many
thousand users
* Rich Web-based interface that shares the look and feel, the
features and the data of Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning
* Improved integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning by
using the SOGo Connector and SOGo Integrator extensions
* Two-way synchronization support with any SyncML-capable devices
(BlackBerry, Palm, Windows CE, etc.) by using the Funambol SOGo
Connector

and many more! SOGo and our extensions are completely free. We have a
demo website where you can experience SOGo from the Web or your
preferred CalDAV client:

http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/

=== Changes since the last release ===

* implemented interfaces to handle ACL on SOGo addressbooks and
calendars

=== Getting the SOGo Integrator ===

SOGo Integrator is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL
v. 2. As such,
you are free to download and use it from :

http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/plugins/sogo-integrator-0.66-sogo-demo.xpi

This version is configured to connect to the SOGo instance running on
our demo website. Since your personal addressbook will be
automatically uploaded to the server, your are strongly recommended to
use a dedicated user profile for testing. To achieve this, run
Thunderbird with the "-ProfileManager" parameter.
Once this is done, specify "sogo1", "sogo2" or "sogo3" as your
username to connect to the mail server.
You can specify sogo-demo.inverse.ca as the IMAP mail server but you
will not be able to connect. To avoid annoying warning messages,
disable the automatic mail checking in your account settings.

Documentation about the installation and configuration of the SOGo
integrator is available from :

http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo_integrator.html

=== Getting support ===

For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing an email
to : support@inverse.ca

Inverse offers professional services around SOGo to help organizations
deploy the solution and migrate from their legacy systems.