[Kolab-devel] Webpages improvements

[Stephan Buys]

Hi,

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 18:35, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > all the users in my organization.
> >
> > A bit clearer?
>
> Yes.
> What I ask myself is:
> Wouldn't be more appropriate to use the LDAP
> replication mechanisms here then?

Agreed. Couple of problems here with Kolab 1.0

1) The Kolab structure is "hard-coded". I would highly recommend
that one of our near-future goals for Kolab be decoupling Kolab from
fixed points in the LDAP tree. 
- Specifically, one should be able to - through the configuration file/s - to
customize each component's location within any LDAP tree. This way we
can have several Kolab servers and their associated folders living in one 
LDAP tree. We can then use a Master->Slave replication scheme with LDAP
replication to achieve a organizational-wide directory.

2) Because of the above-mentioned limitation I decided to use e-mail as
the transport mechanism for LDAP replication. This means that I do not need
to worry about connection tracking, etc. SMTP is my transport and Postfix 
takes care of the problems assocaited. I could have used direct LDAP 
connections between the servers but the issues like timeouts, etc. become
an issue. 



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