Goooy Keep the apps your team already knows
Goooy is a groupware server before it is a web app. It speaks the protocols Outlook, iPhones, Apple Mail and Thunderbird already speak, so changing what runs on the server does not mean changing what your team opens in the morning.
What connects, and how
Every one of these talks to Goooy directly. You do not license a connector, install an agent on the client, or put a gateway in between.
Desktop mail & calendar
- Outlook for Windows, natively over MAPI/HTTP: mail, calendar, contacts, tasks and the address book
- Outlook for Mac over Exchange Web Services
- Apple Mail, Calendar and Contacts on macOS
- Thunderbird, and any other IMAP client
- Autodiscover and autoconfig, so setup is an address and a password
Phones & tablets
- The built-in mail app on iOS and Android over Exchange ActiveSync
- Push mail, calendar, contacts and global address book lookups
- Device policy and remote wipe from the admin console
- CalDAV and CardDAV for clients that prefer them
- The Goooy app for iOS and Android, with push notifications
Documents in desktop Office
- Word and Excel open a file straight out of the Drive and save back to it
- Locking and live co-authoring while the browser editor is in the same document
- WebDAV and MS-FSSHTTP, the protocols Office already uses
- Collabora Online as an optional in-browser editor over WOPI
- The built-in editors need nothing installed at all
Identity & directory
- Single sign-on per organisation over OIDC or SAML 2.0
- SCIM 2.0 provisioning: accounts created and disabled by your IdP
- Directory sync from Active Directory or LDAP, plus CSV bulk import
- MFA with TOTP or WebAuthn passkeys, enforced by policy
- App passwords for clients that can't do modern auth, revocable one by one
The full list, with what each one is for
If your evaluation includes a protocol matrix, here it is. Everything below ships in the product; nothing is an add-on.
| Protocol | What it's for | Typical clients |
|---|---|---|
| MAPI/HTTP | Native Outlook for Windows: mail, calendar, contacts, tasks and the address book, with nothing to install on the client. | Outlook 2016 and later |
| EWS | Exchange Web Services, for clients and integrations that already speak Exchange. | Outlook for Mac, room panels, integrations |
| Exchange ActiveSync | Push mail, calendar and contacts on phones, with device policy and remote wipe. | iOS Mail, Android, most mobile mail apps |
| IMAP & POP3 | Standard mailbox access for any mail client, with IDLE push on IMAP. | Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, mutt |
| SMTP submission | Authenticated, TLS-protected sending from any client. | Every mail client |
| CalDAV | Two-way calendar sync, including free/busy and invitations. | Apple Calendar, Thunderbird, DAVx⁵ |
| CardDAV | Two-way contact sync against the same directory that powers sign-in. | Apple Contacts, DAVx⁵ |
| JMAP | A modern JSON API for mail, contacts, calendars and server-side rules (RFC 8620/8621). | JMAP clients, your own code |
| Autodiscover & autoconfig | Clients discover their own settings from an email address and a password. | Outlook, Thunderbird, iOS |
| WebDAV & MS-FSSHTTP | Desktop Word and Excel open a document from the Drive and co-author it in place. | Word and Excel, Windows and Mac |
| WOPI | An in-browser editor host, if you'd rather use Collabora Online than the built-in editors. | Collabora Online |
| SCIM 2.0 | Automated user provisioning and de-provisioning from your identity provider. | Entra ID, Okta, Keycloak |
| OIDC & SAML 2.0 | Single sign-on into Goooy, configured per organisation. | Entra ID, Keycloak, Authentik, ADFS |
| OAuth 2.0 provider | Goooy as the issuer: your own apps sign in with Goooy, and mail clients can use XOAUTH2 instead of a password. | Your applications, Thunderbird |
| LDAP directory sync | Goooy reads users and groups from your existing directory. | Active Directory, OpenLDAP |
| iCalendar & vCard | Import and export calendars and address books as files, from anywhere. | Everything |
IMAP, POP3 and SMTP submission are served by the mail server that ships with Goooy. One Helm value turns it on. Everything else is part of the API itself.
Three ways in, one account
If your team would rather not live in a browser tab, they do not have to. Each app talks to your own server, and nothing routes through us.
Web
The full suite in any modern browser, with nothing installed and nothing to keep updated. Works on a tablet and on a phone screen.
Desktop
A small native app for Windows, macOS and Linux: the whole suite in one window, a tray unread badge, native notifications, mailto: handling, and Drive folder sync with selective sync, bandwidth limits and conflict resolution.
Mobile
iOS and Android apps with push notifications for mail, chat and meeting invitations, pointed at your own server. Or use the phone's built-in mail app over ActiveSync; both work.
And the file formats to go with it
Import, export and everyday editing all use formats you already have, so nothing you put into Goooy is trapped there.
Check it against your own estate
Send us the clients and the identity provider you have to support, and we'll tell you plainly what fits and what doesn't.