[Kroupware] Web interface frontend

Martin Konold kroupware@mail.kde.org
Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:37:26 +0200


On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:31 am, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

Hi Andreas,

> > Multiple tier architecture here means:
> > Tier 1: GUI or command line frontend
> > Tier 2: backend on the server
> > Tier 3: database in ldap

> all day-to-day work is done by creating/changing ldap objects and
> imap mailboxes. moving the imap configuration into ldap is _hard_,
> as it requires rewriting the imap daemon (as the client can change
> the configuration on the imap protocol level, a simple template/read
> from ldap isn't good enough).

Please explain in more detail. I do not see why there is a need to rewrit=
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imapd.

Regards,
--martin
Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
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Erlewein, Frank, Konold & Partner - Beratende Ingenieure und Physiker
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