Re: Korganiizer: How to add calendar on IMAP folder?

Kevin Krammer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Organization KDE
Message-ID <1854247.qNSFf9UxBP@persephone>
On Friday, 2014-02-14, 22:46:09, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 13 February 2014 19:30:33 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2014-02-13, 17:53:00, Florian Auer wrote:
> > > On Monday 10 February 2014 17:54:07 [email protected] wrote:
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > > 
> > > > according to the Korganizer manual, it is possible to add a
> > > > calendar
> > > > which is located on a diconnected IMAP account folder [1].
> > > > However, using Kontact 4.11.3 on Kubuntu 13.10, I cannot find
> > > > this option. There is also no "Groupware" tab in the "Misc"
> > > > settings of my disconnected IMAP account. Is there some extra
> > > > (Akonadi) package I have to install?
> > 
> > As far as I can tell that (Calendar on IMAP) should still be possible,
> > this is was Kolab is doing.
> > I think it requires that the IMAP server supports folder annotations
> > and that certain folders have those annotations telling the client do
> > treat emails in such folders as containers for events, contacts, etc.
> > 
> > On the client side this is handled by the "Kolab Resource", a helper
> > process that basically "subscribes" to those IMAP folders and maps
> > their actual contents into respective Contact or Calendar folders.
> 
> Many years ago IMAP calendars were possible without using Kolab. The
> generic "Groupware" feature died either with the switch to KDE 4 or with
> the switch to Akonadi. Hmm, or it died with the switch to the new Kolab
> XML format. Anyway, it's gone since a long time. Nowadays, the Kolab
> resource is the only way for storing a calendar in an IMAP folder.

It might still be possible to do this with other IMAP servers.
Server access is handled by the normal IMAP resource, the Kolab resource 
"detects" these groupware folders based on IMAP folder annotations if I 
remember correctly.

As far as I know both Cyrus and Dovecote support these annotations.

The difficult bit is probably creating the annotations.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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