[Kroupware] Email client for windows

[Holger Schroeder]

Hi,

why not try to get kmail running on windows?
the kde-cygwin people are making great progress in this direction lately, you 
can install a kde 3.1.1 on win32, which runs in an own XFree window.

i guess the available manpower ( if there is any available... ) is better 
invested into getting kmail running. this can be seen as a single task to do, 
which will be done, when it is done, and then it would work from a single 
code base. when somebody extends mozilla mail or and other mua, then there 
will always be two code bases to maintain, which is a bag thing imho...

in the actual cvs version of the XFree server, there is already a mode, in 
which every X window gets an own MS Windows window, so one can get rid of the 
big kde-desktop window, so this should look quite nice, when somebody works 
on it.

Holger


On Friday 20 June 2003 13:57, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > >Developing a Free Software plugin for Outlook would be a comprehensive
> > >job to do. IMHO, investing such Free Software man power (if available
> > >at all) should better be spend into developing an alternative
> > >Kolab-enabled MUA (if spent for Windows at all).
> >
> > I dont think the trouble would be that big...
>
> what do you refer to? the FS-Plugin? I assure you, that it is
> a huge job (it was already for Bynari and Konsec) because
> you have to deal with badly documented or entirrely obscure
> proprietary  formats.
>
> > Why not start with
> > a MUA that already works on windows (and other platforms)?
> > I'm thinking about the mozilla MUA. How much trouble was it to
> > extend kmail to the kolab client?
>
> yes, Mozilla alreay came to my mind for such an approach.
> Still it will mean quite some work and doing it without payment
> will make the job even tougher.
>
> > >A Kolab-web client is an interesting compromise that should require
> > >a reasonable efford.
> >
> > the problem with a web-client is that you need online access.
> > With a standalone you could take an offline backup of the imap
> > server.
>
> Indeed, this is true.
>
> > Outlook can do this, so why not kolab clientS.
>
> The KDE Kolab Client can!