[Kroupware] Kroupware server

[Lukas Smith]

> From: kroupware-admin@mail.kde.org
[mailto:kroupware-admin@mail.kde.org]
> On Behalf Of Tassilo Erlewein
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:49 PM
 
> > Will the kroupware server be gui dependant,
> 
> The Kolab server components don't require any X / Windowmanager
> components on the server machine.
> 
> > i.e. will I be able to install the server on a machine without a kde
> > installation?
> > will I be able to compile the server on a machine without the kde
> > libs?
> 
> absolutely no problem
> The main dependencies are more in terms of OpenLDAP, Cyrus SASL,
> BerkeleyDB and the like.
> 
> Kolab's GUI is a PHP/Webinterface that speaks exclusively to LDAP.
> A perl backend keeps the LDAP in sync with the rest of the server
> components.
> A watchdog monitors the services which Kolab consists of.
> Services are: OpenLDAP, Cyrus SASLauthd, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, Apache,
> and Proftpd.
> 

woha .. that is a pretty long list of dependencies.
But I guess it is in the spirit of opensource to take the best available
tools for the job and combine them.

Regards,
Lukas