[Kde-pim] Kontact and Groupware - features

[Roland Wolters]

Hi,

recently I was asked if I could help writing an article about Kontact and it's 
Groupware features for a German IT magazine (this issue was also mentioned at 
this list, you might remember).
However, my experiences in this field are limited and I have some questions I 
would like to ask here. Don't bother with structure, language, text form or 
whatever, I will take care of that later on.

While reading through the questions please keep in mind that the target 
audience are skilled administrators and technicians. The more technical 
detailed the answer is the better.

So:
The main question is: where does Kontact store the Groupware configuration 
data? Imagine an admin who wants to alter some options or the configuration, 
where does he/she has to look, how can these data be accessed and altered?

And of course, which data can be managed there, which are tricky to manage and  
what is impossible - allfrom the point of view of an administrator?

Also, how is the current, real state of the Groupware connection? I guess 
really interested people should only use the Enterprise branch and I read 
that there is the Scalix connector development going on at the moment. Also, 
there is of course the Kolab connector and quite some hotos around describe 
eGroupware and Kontact. So, the question is how well do all these connectors 
work in real life, how well are they integrated? And which other connectors 
listed at kontact.kde.org/groupwareservers.php would you really describe 
at "supported"? (If there are enough information I would create a table 
comparing the connectors).
And what are the technical differences between the connectors? While Scalix 
and Kolab work with IMAP e-mail attachments (as far as I understood it) what 
about the others?

In general, if you have any information you think could be interesting and are 
not mentioned in the docs I would of couse be happy to read them. The more 
information the better :)

Last but not least, since you are at the moment in the Akonadi sprint: I would 
also put some additional information about Akonadi into the article, so if 
there is anything you'd like me to mention regarding Akonadi and Groupware 
support, just point it out.

That's enough for now I think. Best Regards,

Roland Wolters
aka liquidat
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