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I tried used Owncloud... and stopped. I tried using radicale... and stopped.

The software was fragile, slow, and broke often. Maybe it's better now (a few years later). But at the time it was negatively impacting productivity.

I've moved to Sogo. Zero problems after install.

File sync is Resilio. Bittorrent sync was unusable, the new re-branded (and fixed) Resilio works fine.

Just my $0.02

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As with many things open source a couple of years is a long, long time; Nextcloud has improved a lot as far as I can tell, for me it's decently usable and surprisingly problem free.

How's Sogo with regards to maintainability and upgradability?

Sogo: zero maintenance. No problem upgrades.

It's really, really, nice.

sogo does not release stable packages anymore (it's only for paid users which is basically businesses). How are you updating sogo?

https://sogo.nu/download.html has all the new releases, where did you find that "only for paid users" info?

I have been researching this space recently, what turned me off was them scanning ports and then reporting to ISPs, supposedly because people were running vulnerable versions, but reporting could make problems for users because some ISPs don't allow servers on home connections.

And here's the money quote: "The effort has been quite successful. Of the tens of thousands server owners who were informed, over 5% had upgraded already in the first ten days."[1] In other words 95% were left vulnerable and they were responsible for it. Does not inspire trust.

[1] https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-releases-security-scann...

Have used systems like Zimbra in the past but SOGo looks pretty neat and inviting. Appreciate the intro.

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