General questions

[seidler2547]

Hi, I'm just starting to see if Group-Office could be my next Mail/Groupware server software and I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can answer. So far I'm quite impressed with what I see but there are some things that I'm wondering about.

1. Is there a vertical preview pane layout in emails? Having the list of emails on top and the preview pane underneath it? I couldn't find a setting and that's something that feels quite a normal feature to me.
2. Why can I search the "Full Message" in the simple search but not the advanced search? I would really like to be able to search through all mail messages just using a basic search field, like Outlook Web, like Gmail, like Zimbra and many others. I have installed solr and dovecot-solr, so performance should not be an issue.
3. When I connect an Android phone via ActiveSync, it works very well, but no subfolders are shown. Is this a limitation of ActiveSync or is there another reason?
4. Is there something like "domain admins" in Group-Office? Meaning giving permissions to create and manage users but limited to a pre-selected domain? I host email for a couple of NGOs here and of course I don't want them interfering with other domains but their own.
5. As a normal user, I can just add any alias to my account and send from it, even though that email doesn't exist. Is that normal? Can it be prevented?
6. Is there a way to show all mail folders without having to subscribe to them?

[mschering]

Hi,

Thanks for trying Group-Office!

Here are my answers:

1. Is there a vertical preview pane layout in emails? Having the list of emails on top and the preview pane underneath it? I couldn't find a setting and that's something that feels quite a normal feature to me.

Unfortunately not. We used to have this but as most screens were more wide and we wanted to make it responsive for mobile phones we dropped this view. Maybe we'll bring it back as we're going to rewrite the mail module soon.

3. Why can I search the "Full Message" in the simple search but not the advanced search? I would really like to be able to search through all mail messages just using a basic search field, like Outlook Web, like Gmail, like Zimbra and many others. I have installed solr and dovecot-solr, so performance should not be an issue.

It's actually there but it's called "contents".

4. When I connect an Android phone via ActiveSync, it works very well, but no subfolders are shown. Is this a limitation of ActiveSync or is there another reason?

Not sure, I see my subfolders on my iphone. Maybe you need to subscribe them?

5. Is there something like "domain admins" in Group-Office? Meaning giving permissions to create and manage users but limited to a pre-selected domain? I host email for a couple of NGOs here and of course I don't want them interfering with other domains but their own.

Yes, You can setup permissions per domain.

6. As a normal user, I can just add any alias to my account and send from it, even though that email doesn't exist. Is that normal? Can it be prevented?

This can be done with any mail client. You can prevent it by not allowing manage permissions to the module and account so they can just use it but can't edit the account.

7. Is there a way to show all mail folders without having to subscribe to them?

No there isn't.

Best regards,
Merijn

[mschering]

Doesn't this give the same results as "Full message"? Which IMAP server do you use?

[awnz]

Hi, no, "Full message" only searches the current folder:

(although I just discovered a bug in my above patch, when you select "Search everywhere, searchIn = 'all' is set, but when something else is selected, it is not cleared)

[mschering]

But TEXT should also search the current folder only if I'm not mistaken. Only via advanced you can select search all folders.

[awnz]

Correct, until I did the patch 😉
But the "TEXT" option isn't available under the advanced search (others including BODY are, but not TEXT).
To search everything, you need query="TEXT (searchstring)" plus searchIn = 'all' to get all the folders - there was no way presented in the UI to get that combination that I could see.

edit: fixed unbalanced quote

[mschering]

Ah now I see :)