[kdepim-users] Re: Managing home information

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Sonntag, 27. März 2011 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> On Saturday 26 March 2011 21:30:03 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > > On Saturday 26 March 2011 18:27:17 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > > > Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > > > > On Saturday 26 March 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > > On Saturday 26 March 2011 01:16:58 Leopold Palomo
> > > > > > Avellaneda
> > > > 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I manage several systems and I would like to install
> > > > > > > some software that allows users to have a calendar and
> > > > > > > addresbook, managed by Kontact, and some devices, as
> > > > > > > well as via the web.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I tried citadel, but I have not be able that works well
> > > > > > > with korganizer. I have also tried calendarserver, but
> > > > > > > has no addressbok.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Someone I could recommend some soft that gives this
> > > > > > > functionality with kdepim?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I Kolab what you are looking for?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes, I think it's Kolab (http://www.kolab.org/) Leo is
> > > > > looking for.
> > > > 
> > > > The main disadvantage of kolab is (imho): the only client I
> > > > know of is kontact (besides webinterface). To my point this
> > > > is not sufficient.
> > > 
> > > Maybe not.  From
> > > http://www.kolab.org/about-kolab-clients.html#kdeclient2
> > > 
> > > <quote>
> > > SyncKolab was written to add Kolab functionality to
> > > Thunderbird, Icedove and Seamonkey,
> > > </quote>
> > > 
> > > Sounds pretty useful, to me.
> > 
> > I stand corrected. I used kolab once (version 1) and the only
> > client at this time was horde web and kontact (besides the
> > outlook plugin you had to pay for).
> > 
> > I like the idea in using imap folders for contact and calendar.
> > You only need to setup one server. For SOGo, for example, you
> > have to setup an imap server, the sogo server itself, a database
> > server (mysql or postgresql) and a http server as frontend for
> > sogo.
> > 
> > What I missed most with kolap: I never found packages for a
> > distribution (neither centos/rhel nor suse). You have to use
> > either the source or these openPKG thingy. I must confess that
> > in the last six years I never tested kolab again.
> 
> From time to time I've thought that I should try setting it up on
> my CentOS server, but I've felt it rather daunting :-)

That was the reason for me to look after other PIM tools. I tried 
eGroupWare and some others, all were to slow or not flexible enough 
and many of them have a own userbase only. After some time of 
seraching I currently use gosa for my user management and SOGo as my 
pim-server. If I add a new user with gosa it is working with SOGo 
without any thing I have to do in there. There are some minor things 
to work out but I am satisfied with the functionality.

As said, most of my users (wife and daughter) use thunderbird as 
client (me on windows as well - if I have to use windows) but I hope 
to migrate to kde-pim end of this year. Even ipod-touch works out of 
the box with SOGo.

Martin

> 
> Anne

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