Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud

Post by toxican » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 5:07 PM UTC

gpvos wrote: post #71

What I would like to have is a small Nextcloud installation (max. 200MB, preferably even smaller) that I can host on a ultra-cheap tiny server. I just need file sync, calendar and contacts. The total size of the synced files isn't much either. Nextcloud used to be small enough for this, but they kept adding things, bundling word processors and other stuff I don't need, meanwhile making the contacts and calendar optio…

Post by crtasm » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 5:19 PM UTC

AndroTux wrote: post #108

figmert wrote: post #102

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> ~~If you're hosting it without apache (as in: without htaccess support),~~ make sure the logs directory and files aren't exposed publicly. Never expose any logs to strangers for anything anywhere

Sure, that’s always sound advice. However, most projects are usually designed in a way that their logs are either not exposed at all (due to not being in the webroot for example), or have measurements in place to avoid exposing them (like WordPress for example). Roundcube just puts them there and you have to actively think about excluding them from your webserver configuration. Plus, they dump really sensitive inform…

Post by Zetobal » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

MarcusE1W wrote: post #120

Zetobal wrote: post #47

I hate nextcloud with a passion and I just hope they can govern a project like roundcube... used it for 20 years even through the whole roundcube next debacle. That said roundcube itself is not an oss project with a clean track record. Nextcloud is the OSS equivalent of IBM and ticking boxes so it's easy for management to pull the trigger but every feature is just a half-assed buggy implementation. Gobbling up OSS fu…

Hmm, I am using it for years and can’t quite relate to your passionate hate. With regards to box ticking, that is probably something you need to do if you want to compete with Gsuite and O365. Both have sales teams which are influencing some decision makers in organisations wherever they can. If you give these people the opportunity to say ‘Ha, we can’t use Nextcloud because it does not support XYZ’ then they will. Y…

Post by josteink » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 5:44 PM UTC

zeagle wrote: post #134

ekianjo wrote: post #103

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> upgrades are a breeze upgrades are a breeze even without docker... the self updating function of nextcloud works very well.

Yeah I run it baremetal. No issues at all.

Post by neurostimulant » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 5:53 PM UTC

Zetobal wrote: post #135

MarcusE1W wrote: post #120

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Hmm, I am using it for years and can’t quite relate to your passionate hate. With regards to box ticking, that is probably something you need to do if you want to compete with Gsuite and O365. Both have sales teams which are influencing some decision makers in organisations wherever they can. If you give these people the opportunity to say ‘Ha, we can’t use Nextcloud because it does not support XYZ’ then they will. Y…

You wrote it yourself "might be implemented half-arsed in Gsuite or O365". You can be sure it's half-arsed with nextcloud. For smaller deployments it might be fine but it starts to get bogged down with more than 1000 users.