[dot] Kolab 2 Groupware Released

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1119348335/

From: Daniel Molkentin <molkentin at kde.org>
Dept: it-will-for-your-business-too!
Date: Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @05:05

Kolab 2 Groupware Released
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   After two years of hard work, the Kolab Groupware Project
[http://www.kolab.org] has released Kolab 2
[http://www.kolab.org/news/pr-20050620.html]. It allows for sharing of
personal folders, calendars and contacts and comes with improved spam
and anti-virus capabilities. With Kolab 2 installation is now an easy
two-step process, and the admin web interface has many improvements. 
KDE recently started supplying [http://dot.kde.org/1117544382/] Kolab
for its contributors. KDE Kontact [http://kontact.kde.org] is the
project's official groupware client on GNU/Linux and Unix derivates.

     If you do not have KDE 3.4.1 installed and still want to try Kolab,
the Kolab folks have provided a special version
[http://www.kolab.org/download.html#kolab2kdeclient] of Kontact that
will work with KDE 3.2 and higher.

     The unique concept of storing everything in MIME structures on the
Cyrus IMAP server allows for on-the-fly-backup. As the client performs
most of the groupware tasks, Kolab is extremely scaleable. It is built
entirely on Free Software.
 [http://www.kolab.org/about-kolab-server.html]
     Windows users can use the Toltec plugin [http://www.toltec.co.za]
to turn Outlook in a fully-fledged Kolab client. A web-based interface
to mail, calendar and contacts based on the Horde framework is in
beta-stage and will be released later.

     Help is provided via mailing lists
[http://www.kolab.org/mailman/listinfo/kolab-users], the forum
[http://eforum.de/] and a wiki [http://wiki.kolab.org]. You can also get
professional [http://www.kolab-konsortium.de/en/index.html] help for all
kinds of consultancy, training or development. Kudos to the Kolab guys!
 Kontact Connected to Kolab 2 [http://www.kolab.org/screenshots.html]