Kolab-compliant mail client?

[Eugen Constantinescu]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 10:41, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> On Monday 12 April 2004 22:40, Bradley Alexander wrote:
> > I have tried a couple and wanted to post some opinions and get some
> > feedback. Thus far, I have tried
>
> Our company has been running Kolab for about 9 month. We started with LDAP
> only in the beginning. We've switched from our existing mail server to
> Kolab about 6 months ago. Most of our users use IMAP but no calendar
> support. For them it's easy to select a client - IMAP is supported by most
> of them.
> If you want to use the calendar functionality you may want to use Outlook
> with a plugin. I've tested Binary for a while, but I was not really
> satisfied. Aethera is another possibility. The client is promising. There
> are still some rough edges, but it's usable. There are rumours that the
> next release should be significantly better - that would be really good for
> those who are bound to Windows.

Hi,
Yes, you are right, Aethera has been tested a lot in the last time because 
more people are interested in it and its Kolab support. Most of things are 
fixed and we are trying to add new features too.
Related to Kolab, it will create the Kolab private folders and it will support 
the shared folders (2 important missing things in the last release).

There were Windows crashes reported in this list.
It is related to Windows limited number of pixmaps, I am trying to fix this 
problem in the next days.(it shouldn't be a problem in Xp)
Regards,
Eug

> Aethera would be my favorite client on Windows. But I'm using Linux and
> there you can do better using KDE. There are some options for the KDE user
> regarding a KDE Kolab client. You can run the Kroupware Client on KDE 3.1.
> This is a stable solution. You can run KDE 3.2.x - Kontact already does a
> good job. Running the standalone applications (KMail, KOrganizer,
> KAddressbook) is possible as well and the functionality is the same. The
> most difficult issue might be the setup of the resources to make the
> programs use the Kolab server. It is a little bit tricky for those who are
> not familiar with Kolab and it's KDE clients.
> IMHO the best client (although still under development) is Kontact from KDE
> CVS HEAD. There is a separate release for the KDE PIM package scheduled
> (see
> http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kdepim-3.3-release-plan.html
> ).
>
> > KMail:
> > Pros
> > o  Very nice GPG integration (though I'm still trying to make heads or
> > tails of the crypto plugins)
>
> The plugin mechanism will be replaced in the next version.  Life will
> certainly get easier for you.
>
> > o  Nice interface
> >
> > Cons
> > o  Manual filter application is making me crazy.
>
> You should try to use Sieve scripts to filter your messages on the server.
> This is not supported by KMail, i.e. you have to setup it manually. I did
> so and I'm really satisfied with it. It was not much work and so I can wait
> until KMail will support that in a later release.
>
> > o  Doesn't handle spam very gracefully (I'm using Ian's HOWTO) yet. I'm
> > still working this issue. Spamassassin works, but I haven't yet found a
> > way to filter.
>
> Did you look at http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html#antispam ? BTW, the next
> KMail release will provide a wizard to setup KMail to make use of anti spam
> tools installed on your system.
>
> > o  Filtering is pretty basic. Filter on to/from/subject/mailing list
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. (Filtering in KMail is powerfull, but there are
> problems to filter messages in IMAP folders.)
>
> > o  Cannot create folders on the IMAP server.
>
> Well, this will be fixed by the next release too. (I've no problems with it
> but i'm running CVS snapshots.)
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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