[Kolab-devel] Re: Problem with imap folders and Horde

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 21:17, Martin Konold wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 14. Juni 2005 20:45 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:

> > this sounds like you intend to write into the ldap.
> Which is as such no problem.

I fears are about this special application
saving session details of Horde into ldap variables
on a regular basis.

> > If so, it strikes me as a bad idea as OpenLDAP certainly
> > is not a good database
>
> ??? What do you mean. OpenLDAP is nothing else but a database which offers
> its data via the LDAP protocol?

I mean that if you need a regular database with a lot of writes,
ldap is not the best for you. It is optimised for read access
and has the OID limitations. 
So if you need a database and not a directory server,
you better use a database and not a directory server.

> > and currently Kolab clients
> > to not write into the ldap at all.
>
> Which is not an advantage as such. Technically to me the web admin GUI
> shall also be a Kolab client.

The webadmin can only interact with the master,
thus it breaks the connotation of a client that can access only
a slave server.

It is fine if for administrative tasks to write to the master
directly from the client application. We even might improve
the situation if we get ldap redirects to work.

> > It would break the multilocation
> > feature.
>
> Why?  IMHO this is not necessary if done correctly.

See above, it could be that session data is written into it.
I do not know, thus I asked to be sure.

> Stuart: Please comment which kind of data you intend to store in the LDAP
> directory.

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