[Kroupware] Re: Disconnected imap (was: Re: Proko2 is Good News Towards Kolab2)

[Frederik Himpe]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 15:11:14 +0200, Martin Konold wrote:

> Am Friday 09 April 2004 10:32 am schrieb Frederik Himpe:
> 
> Hi Frederik,
> 
>> > what? no way, people need to be able to see their email, calendar and
>> > other
>> > data from a disconnected laptop.
> 
> Yes, this is _one_ of the reasons to use dIMAP.
> 
>> We need both, when there's a connection with the server, things should
>> be updated immediately on the server, when there's no connection, it
>> should work on cached information and synchronize at first login.
> 
> Yes, this is exaclty how dIMAP works.
> 
>> Anyway, the use of disconnected IMAP, was for us also the reason not to
>> use kolab, it is much too confusing to users that their info is not
>> updated immediately.
> 
> IMHO this is a missunderstanding.
> _Nothing_ within the dIMAP protocol prevents from an immediate
> synchronization in case the client is online.

Yes, you are right. Unfortunately I don't know an Outlook connector
which does immediate synchronization.

Frederik