RE: Suggestion for SME...

Hi

> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:46 pm, Klaus J. Mueller wrote:
> > Hm? For what I understand kolab would make a great extension to 
> > e-smith.
> The kolab implementation is very tightly tied to the concept 
> of "everything in 
> LDAP", while e-smith runs its own configuration database in Perl.

As I mentioned, this is not a trivial exercise. In particular Kolab is
built on postfix and Cyrus, SME uses qmail and uw-imap (I think). I
prefer using ldap as central database. There are however limitation on
the design that the kolab guys have implemented. There is no directory
replication implemented. Although we have hacked this ourselves, it is
very pretty.
 
> > [Does someone have a link to a self definition of e-smith? I can't 
> > seem to find one on e-smith.org. In case there is none yet: 
> shouldn't 
> > we have one? Otherwise we might find out that we all have very 
> > different ideas of what e-smith actually is. This could mean that 
> > we're trying to run into several directions at the same time - now 
> > that we can decide which way to go]
> I see e-smith as the events/actions/templates core. 
> Everything else is 
> changeable. See http://www.e-smith.org/architecture/ and 
> http://www.e-smith.org/concepts/
> 
> Compare that with http://www.kroupware.org/architecture-1.1/index.html

Architecture is different but the functionality is pretty similar. I
have already found ldap samba howto
http://samba.idealx.org/index.en.html

> > Extending the collaborative concept by a workgroup server 
> would be a 
> > great idea in my opinion.
> We could, instead of the kolab approach, try eGroupware - 
> http://www.egroupware.org/ or another system

 Will have a look at it now.... 
It looks like a web-based system?

> > There should not be many components missing, anyway - should there?
> >
> > Brad: did I get you right here: there are some the fileserver bits 
> > missing in e-smith? Or does that read "these are the parts that are 
> > missing in Kolab"
> kolab has no fileserver (or gateway) functionality. The 
> question is - would 
> you rather add the groupware functionality to e-smith, or the 
> fileserver 
> functionality to kolab?

Kolab is purely a collaborative engine, it requires a distribution in
order to function. Why not choose one of the best distributions around?
But it may require extensive hacking to make it all work.
 
> Brad
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