[kdepim-users] Online sync of Kontact?

[Werner Joss]

Am Monday 08 February 2010 21:18:58 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> It's not a weird reason. The problem is that KAddressBook and KOrganizer 
> assume that they have fast access to the data. They were not designed to 
> work with remote address books or calendars. (LDAP does work somehow in 
> KAddressBook, but this is only works for LDAP.) This is why using IMAP 
> instead of DIMAP would be insane.

ok, that sounds reasonable (at least, somehow, although I doubt it would be 
impossible to access address data in tiny vcards over a network at acceptable 
performance)

> The main reason for requesting this to work over IMAP was that in 
> earlier times one had to get the whole IMAP account via DIMAP. This 
> problem was fixed by the introduction of local subscription of folders. 
> Using this feature you can create a normal IMAP account for your mail 
> and a DIMAP account for the groupware folders. For the normal account 
> you subscribe to the mail folders and for the DIMAP account you 
> subscribe to the groupware folders.

that was introduced later, and can be considered a workaround, yes.
at least, it solves the problem of having to keep a complete copy of what is 
on the server just for the sake of being able to use the imap-groupware 
feature.

> With Akonadi we will get rid of the distinction between IMAP and DIMAP. 
> What is cached locally will then be controlled by caching policies which 
> can be defined per folder.

fine.
I'm still trying to figure out what can be done with akonadi ATM (4.4 RC2).
didn't find a way to add a 'imap folder based addressbook' so far, though.
maybe this is just not yet available.

werner



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