shared calendar as long time reminding system?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>:

> Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 16:23:44 schrieb Gunnar Wrobel:
>> > I guess the hackish solution would be to make sure a webclient is running
>> > all the time that has access to the folder and will just send out emails
>> > for each reminder. You might need a script to keep the horde sessing
>> > alive, though.
>>
>> I think the Horde Alarm system allows setting up email reminders  
>> via a  cron job.
>
> From the concept side I do not see how this could work reliably.
> In order to read a folder, any client would need the users credentials
> which should only be kept in memory as long as the client is active.
> A cron job is another client and it dies not have the credentials to access
> the folder of any user.
>
> (And we should move the implementation details to the kolab-devel@ list.)

Sent my answer to this one there.

>
>> @Thorsten: Can you check section 4.4 ("Setting up reminder emails") of
>>
>> http://www.horde.org/kronolith/docs/?f=INSTALL.html
>>
>> and test if that works with the Kolab server? I admit I didn't test  
>>  this yet but if you start testing that I'll promise to help along  
>> to  get it working. It would be useful to add the necessary  
>> configuration  into the Kolab Server configuration templates (or at  
>> least into the  wiki).
>
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