Re: Managing home information

On Saturday 26 March 2011 21:30:03 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > On Saturday 26 March 2011 18:27:17 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > > > On Saturday 26 March 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday 26 March 2011 01:16:58 Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I manage several systems and I would like to install some
> > > > > > software that allows users to have a calendar and
> > > > > > addresbook, managed by Kontact, and some devices, as well
> > > > > > as via the web.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I tried citadel, but I have not be able that works well
> > > > > > with korganizer. I have also tried calendarserver, but has
> > > > > > no addressbok.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Someone I could recommend some soft that gives this
> > > > > > functionality with kdepim?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I Kolab what you are looking for?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, I think it's Kolab (http://www.kolab.org/) Leo is looking
> > > > for.
> > > 
> > > The main disadvantage of kolab is (imho): the only client I know
> > > of is kontact (besides webinterface). To my point this is not
> > > sufficient.
> > 
> > Maybe not.  From
> > http://www.kolab.org/about-kolab-clients.html#kdeclient2
> > 
> > <quote>
> > SyncKolab was written to add Kolab functionality to Thunderbird,
> > Icedove and Seamonkey,
> > </quote>
> > 
> > Sounds pretty useful, to me.
> 
> I stand corrected. I used kolab once (version 1) and the only client
> at this time was horde web and kontact (besides the outlook plugin you
> had to pay for).
> 
> I like the idea in using imap folders for contact and calendar. You
> only need to setup one server. For SOGo, for example, you have to
> setup an imap server, the sogo server itself, a database server (mysql
> or postgresql) and a http server as frontend for sogo.
> 
> What I missed most with kolap: I never found packages for a
> distribution (neither centos/rhel nor suse). You have to use either
> the source or these openPKG thingy. I must confess that in the last
> six years I never tested kolab again.
> 
From time to time I've thought that I should try setting it up on my CentOS 
server, but I've felt it rather daunting :-)

Anne
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