Atmail Experience, Groupware, Outlook

[theywill]

I was wondering if anyone had some real-world experience with the Atmail Full Plesk module/add-on to share.

Are the groupware features really available and working, as described on the Atmail site?
http://www.atmail.com/webmail-client/
http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/atmail/

Are your able to connect to and use any of the groupware elements, like the calendar and contacts, via local Outlook clients?
http://www.atmail.com/linux-email-server/groupware/

Thumbs up or down for $60/month?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Christopher McBride]

I'm in the same boat here - but took one step further - I've taken out the subscription to find out for myself.

The Plesk version is 5.6, poor compared to the new 6.1 that I was hoping for.

The calendaring and groupware options are part of it - but they are not 100% transparent.
Calendaring installes a calendar server on your machine - great.
Contacts are currently only synced via a sync program by Atmail.
Calendar can sync automatically in just about any email program EXCEPT OUTLOOK (they don't conform to the CalDav stanadrd) - but the sync program will do the job.

Push email is not available anymore due to licencing restrictions from Microsoft to Atmail.

I have not had the chance to try the Contacts or Calendar sync as the sync program is for up to Outlook 2007 - I'm running the 2010 beta.

They will make an Office 2010 version when it is released.


Overall - not greatly happy with the info I had to find out for myself.
V6.1 is leaps and bounds better than 5.6, but the integration with Plesk is done by Parallels (which i found out this morning - http://forum.atmail.com/viewtopic.php?id=1704).

My next step is to ask Igor when devs will create the mods in v6.1 to allow full integration.


Hope that helps!