[Kolab-devel] [Announcement] Native kolabadmin application

[Marcus Hüwe]

Hi,

really really nice app!
I just created an rpm for suse (use it own your own risk).
http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/groupware

Keep up your great work!


Marcus

Am Mon, 29 May 2006 14:17:22 +0200
schrieb Tobias Koenig <tokoe at kde.org>:

> Hi,
> 
> the kolab administration webfrontend is nice for small installations,
> but as soon as you want to manager several hundred users or even more
> you have real usability problems.
> 
> For example if you want to add a new member to the distribution list
> you have to input the email addresses, but with hundreds of users you
> have to lookup them first. A better way would be to provide a
> combobox with all users listed in it. However when your distribution
> list contains 12 members, your browser needs to load 12x1000 combobox
> entries.
> 
> In this case a native client application which provides the same
> functionality like the web frontend could help. So instead of
> providing comboboxes, the administrator could search in a ldap search
> dialog for the members he wants to add. Also people like native
> applications better than web applications, that's a fact ;)
> 
> Over the last month I wrote such an application in Qt4/C++, so it is
> portable on every Unix and should also work on Windows when
> libopenldap is installed.
> 
> The current limitations are:
>   - uses only CRYPT passwords (can be fixed by an additional
> dependency to QCA)
>   - no sieve based functionality yet (can be fixed by implementing a
>                                       sieve tool, which is planned
> for KDE4 anyway)
> 
> Otherwise it should work fine, you can add/edit/delete
>   - users
>   - addressbook entries
>   - shared folders
>   - distribution lists
>   - administrators
>   - maintainers
> and configure the services of kolab.
> 
> To check it out, just download the source from SVN via
> 
>   svn co svn://wgess16.dyndns.org/kolabadmin/trunk kolabadmin
> 
> cd into kolabadmin and execute
> 
>   qmake
>   make
>   make install
> 
> For comments, bug reports and suggestions you can send me a private
> mail.
> 
> Ciao,
> Tobias