Re: Online sync of Kontact?

Hi all,

I read with interest the recent discussion about the groupware functionality 
of kontact and would like to add a related question about another kontact 
component, namely akregator.

As far as I see, RSS feeds are not part of the groupware folders. However, I 
often wondered if there was a possibility to improve the following situation: 
Using akregator/kontact on different computers, I subscribed to a number of RSS 
feeds. At the moment, the feed list is synced with unison, which works fine. 
But this method does not keep track of the status (like read/unread) of the 
news items. That is, I read the feeds on one machine, but they appear as 
unread on the other.
So my question is whether there is (or will be) a function of kontact / 
akregator / akonadi allowing me to sync news feeds in some way? Or maybe 
someone else has encountered this situation and knows a workaround?

Best,
Gandalf




Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 23:01:52 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Art Alexion wrote:
> > 2010/2/8 Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>:
> > > On Monday 08 February 2010, Werner Joss wrote:
> > >> Am Monday 08 February 2010 12:04:42 schrieb Art Alexion:
> > >> > This sounds promising for my situation.  Exchange (which I use
> > >> > at work) is not IMAP, but I can access it with the IMAP
> > >> > protocol. Exchange actually creates "mail" folders for notes,
> > >> > contacts, etc. I am foing to try to see if Kontact can read and
> > >> > display this exchange data this way.
> > >> 
> > >> I doubt, this will not work: kontact assumes predefined names for
> > >> the 'groupware' IMAP folders, e.g. 'Contacts' for address data
> > >> etc. - dunno if exchange can be convinced to keep its data there
> > >> ...
> > > 
> > > I don't think that Exchange exports its non-mail folders via IMAP.
> > > At least, the Exchange server of my company doesn't do so. Also, I
> > > doubt very much that the Exchange server would present the content
> > > of the groupware folders in the Kolab format.
> > 
> > That would explain why Evolution reports that there is no mail in the
> > folders and presents them as empty.  I had thought that possibly, it
> > was just in some format that evolution didn't understand, but that
> > Kontact would.
> > 
> > I am going to get inside the exchange configuration and see if I can
> > force it to serve those folders via IMAP.  Before I do, which formats
> > would Kontact be able to use?
> 
> In the open format invented for and used by Kolab (www.kolab.org).
> Exchange does not support this format, so you won't be able to use those
> folders even if you can make the appear via IMAP.
> 
> There is some work going into an Exchange resource for Akonadi. AFAIK
> basic functionality like reading data from the Exchange server already
> works. You might want to check this out.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo