[Kroupware] Re: About Kolab and plugins

[Bo Thorsen]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 15:29, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> Am Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:53 schrieb Bo Thorsen:
> > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:49, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > > Personaly i would suggest me ;-P but then again, i might be more
> > > inclined to use Aethera from theKompany, since this is
> > > kmail/korganisor/... but avaible directly for windows. And kolab
> > > support should be 2 weeks away (this was last week). And this
> > > product will use the full feature set of kolab, rather than just a
> > > (ugly?) hack for outlook.
> >
> > If you do go ahead and evaluate Aethera, please send a review of it
> > here. I have tried during this week to get it running on Windows, but
> > it wouldn't even connect to an IMAP server. Not a good sign :-(
>
> Hi,
>
> as Aethera 1.0.2 became available for download on Tuesday gave it a try
> on my notebook running W2k. Maybe it was me but after 20 min I decided
> to deinstall it...
>
> Here are the main reasons:
> 1) I did specify to not store the password for my IMAP account in the
> configuration. However, I was not asked for it (even after a restart)
> instead the IMAP connection silently failed without any comment.
> 2) A good portion of my IMAP folders remained invisible. I tried to
> find subsription options or whatever in context and main menus - no
> chance to solve that quickly resp. at all.
> 3) Kolab integration - where is it? I played with the organizer view
> which seem to be inherited from KOrganizer (and so written in about
> text), but I got no idea how to let it access my calendar folder on the
> Kolab server. 4) Aethera crashed on _every_ application shutdown.
>
> Data loss is no fun and to prevent it I finally wiped Aethera from my
> disk without testing anything more. I'm using Mozilla and (sometimes)
> Outlook on Windows. On Linux I'm using KDE 3.2 (branch). All of them
> are miles away from Aethera concerning stability and functionality.
> Sorry for providing only critizism, I really hoped for an alternative
> Kolab client, but what I've seen (even as Aethera newby) was only
> disappointing. And even if there would be an Aethera plugin for Kolab
> which I missed, I would have no good feeling running that client.
> Nevertheless I do hope, that the next Aethera release will do much
> better.

Well, thanks for the review anyway. At least I know not to waste time on 
it with this release.

Bo.
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