General info (repost, sorry about previous HTML posts)

[Pieter Vanmeerbeek]

Hi,

I’m new to the kolab groupware system. On my search to a opensource 
linux solution to groupware, I found your project. I read all docs I 
could find on your project (see list below) but still have some 
questions. Perhaps someone can help me with them. I researched kolab in 
cooperation with the Konsec konnector

1. is there any reason why all docs state the use of the Toltec 
connector instead of the Konsec?

2. Does Kolab support all possible handheld device (PALM/PDA/ GSM) 
syncing? I found on the Kolab website that it support the hotsync 
protocol for syncing. But my knowledge on this territory is almost 
unexisting. Does it also support handheld devices using the Windows CE OS?

3. The kolab docs state that modifying events of another is not possible 
and only the creator of the event may modify (p15 in Kolab Free Software 
Groupware Project version 1.9.x Draft). It explains a delegate story by 
which another user may borrow the identity of someone else to create and 
appointment, allowing modification by the other person like with a 
secretary and the boss. It is not clear to me why the secretary may not 
modify events of her boss if she got write access to his calendar? Why 
this difference between write access and creator of an appointment? 
Isn’t this making things more complex?


A final question regarding Disconnected IMAP. From what I understood the 
Kolab system uses IMAP to store workgroup folders (calendar, notes,..) 
into the cyrus mailserver into special folders like calendar. The Kolab 
docs state the use of a Disconnected IMAP to configure the mailclient, 
Can you explain me the Disconnected IMAP protocol? I suppose the DIMAP 
protocol serves to map the special IMAP workgroup folders on the server 
to the workgroup folders in the Client using IMAP and in the reverse way 
too? Perhaps this system also takes care of a copy left on the server 
for all mail messages and possible user created subfolder?

I would expect everything to happen with IMAP as a central storage where 
all mail/workgroup things are kept, allowing access by different clients 
using pop and/or IMAP.

To make it more confusing the Konsec connector uses the pop protocol to 
fetch mail and a datafile to sync workgroup folders. So you see this 
part is unclear to me and I couldn’t find any clear docs given an 
overview about this.


Kind regards,
Pieter
Able


PS I used the following docs/info. Any other source is welcome:
-freebusy.txt doc from kolabs CVS
- Proko docs 2, doc 3 and doc 5
- Kolab Free Software Groupware Project version 1.9.x
- Konsec Konnector Handbook
- http://www.kolab.org/
- http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_FAQ
- http://www.konsec.com
- mailing archives of konsec and kolab