new pre-release of SOGo

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Inverse team is happy to announce the pre-release 0.9-20070604 of 
Scalable OpenGroupware.org (alias "SOGo").

[ What is SOGo ]

SOGo is a flavour of OGo that was redesigned for scalability while
keeping the fundamental functionalities of a groupware server. It
can be used both as a Web application with a user interface that 
integrates
well with the Mozilla application suite, or as a GroupDAV and CalDAV 
server
which you can then access from your native client application of 
choice such
as Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning.

Inverse has contributed to SOGo many enhancements and features, such 
as :

- Fresh AJAX-based user interface which mimics the Thunderbird /
Lighthing / Sunbird look and feel while reducing resource usage
- Calendar, address book and IMAP folder sharing
- Exchange and Oracle Calendar-compatible ACLs
- Tasks support and vCard storage support for contacts
- Multiple address books per user and LDAP-based address books
- CalDAV support

Screenshots of the Web interface for the calendar, address book and
email modules are available from :

http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-calendar.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-contacts.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-mail.jpg

and of the native interface provided by Mozilla Thunderbird and 
Lightning :

http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-calendar.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-contacts.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-mail.jpg

Finally, you can also visit Inverse's website (http://inverse.ca) 
which contains more information
about SOGo (http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo.html), our 
Thunderbird
GroupDAV plugin 
(http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/thunderbird_groupdav_plugin.html)
and our Lightning Enhancer 
(http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/lightning_enhancer_plugin.html).


[ Changes since the last release ]

- an email is now sent each time a user adds or removes an other users 
from the ACL
- a refactoring was made in the email module to move the computing of 
the mailbox tree and menus to client-side
- added the ability to create and remove IMAP folders
- more work was done on IE 7 and Safari/WebKit compatibility, SOGo is 
now usable from those browsers and full compatibility is underway
- complete revisit of the ACLs in order for better level of 
conformance and security
- the navigation links at the top of the lists of emails are now 
working again
- the installation and configuration steps for SOGo has been 
documented - see our website for details

[ Getting SOGo ]

SOGo is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such,
you are free to download and try it by either getting the newly
released snapshot from :

http://www.inverse.ca/uploads/SOGo/SOGo-20070604.tar.gz

or by getting the sources from the official SVN server :

http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOGo/inverse/trunk/

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

http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/sogo/documentation.html


[ Getting support ]

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

We are continuously working on the project and much more is to come 
very
soon!