[Kroupware] Re: About Kolab and plugins

[Eugen Constantinescu]

Hi Andreas,
It is my first step to support Kolab, it's possible to not be what you have 
expected but that's what I could do for this release.
I am using a standard Kolab server installation on my Mdk 9.2 system.

For details about Kolab support you should read the Help pages which comes 
with Aethera.
Aethera needs a restart after a new IMAP or Kolab account is created.
Aethera can see only the subscribed folders and the Kolab specific folders are 
subscribed.

It working very nice and without crashes for me, even on my Windows Me testing 
system. I am able to synchronize my calendar, contacts and notes.
I am storing the password (which is encrypted) if this makes a difference.
Regards,
Eug

On Thursday 22 January 2004 16:29, 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.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
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