[Kroupware] Re: About Kolab and plugins

[Jon Bendtsen]

Den 22. jan 2004, kl. 15:29, skrev Andreas Gungl:

> 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.

dammit, why do people release software like that?
And i dont see any notice that it is beta software.



JonB