[Kolab-devel] different IMAP server

[Nathan Toone]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:41 am, Ilja Booij wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I have a question about the IMAP server in Kolab. I have tried Kolab to
> see if we can use it as our groupware server. It looks very nice indeed.
>   The only problem is that we'd like to use it with our own IMAP server
> (DBMail http://www.dbmail.org). So, my question is, to what extent is
> Kolab dependent on Cyrus, or is it only dependent on some features of
> Cyrus (ACL, LDAP authentication)?


- From my point of view (as someone who's installed it, is quite familiar with 
it, but didn't develop it) I think you'd be better off to try and write your 
own configuration tools around the IMAP server you are currently using.  It's 
not so much that Kolab depends on Cyrus, as it is that all the configuration 
for all the services comes from Kolab - and integrating the configuration 
mechanisms into dbmail will be quite difficult.

Also - a lot of the features (such as shared folders, shared calendaring, etc) 
depend on certain IMAP extensions that Cyrus supports (I'm not sure if dbmail 
supports them or not)

Just my point of view.

- -Nathan
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAYF3Q+lPSZRR0T30RAsmBAJ9ivzR30QitphvfvWRaG1zaecVLaACghPkZ
HZH+s1n+duidHuM7V/YAxu8=
=Cqrs
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----