General info request

[Pieter Vanmeerbeek]

Hi,

 

I'm new to the kolab groupware system. On my search to a opensource linux
solution to groupware, I found your project. I read all docs I could find on
your project (see list below) but still have some questions. Perhaps someone
can help me with them. I researched kolab in cooperation with the Konsec
konnector

 

1.	is there any reason why all docs state the use of the Toltec
connector instead of the Konsec?
2.	Does Kolab support all possible handheld device (PALM/PDA/ GSM)
syncing? I found on the Kolab website that it support the hotsync protocol
for syncing. But my knowledge on this territory is almost unexisting. Does
it also support handheld devices using the Windows CE OS? 
3.	The kolab docs state that modifying events of another is not
possible and only the creator of the event may modify (p15 in Kolab Free
Software Groupware Project version 1.9.x Draft). It explains a delegate
story by which another user may borrow the identity of someone else to
create and appointment, allowing modification by the other person like with
a secretary and the boss. It is not clear to me why the secretary may not
modify events of her boss if she got write access to his calendar?  Why this
difference between write access and creator of an appointment? Isn't this
making things more complex?

 

A final question regarding Disconnected IMAP. From what I understood the
Kolab system uses IMAP to store workgroup folders (calendar, notes,..) into
the cyrus mailserver into special folders like calendar. The Kolab docs
state the use of a Disconnected IMAP to configure the mailclient, Can you
explain me the Disconnected IMAP protocol? I suppose the DIMAP protocol
serves to map the special IMAP workgroup folders on the server to the
workgroup folders in the Client using IMAP and in the reverse way too?
Perhaps this system also takes care of a copy left on the server for all
mail messages and possible user created subfolder?

 

 I would expect everything to happen with IMAP as a central storage where
all mail/workgroup things are kept, allowing access by different clients
using pop and/or IMAP.

To make it more confusing the Konsec connector uses the pop protocol to
fetch mail and a datafile to sync workgroup folders. So you see this part is
unclear to me and I couldn't find any clear docs given an overview about
this.

 

Kind regards,

Pieter

Able

 

 

PS I used the following docs/info. Any other source is welcome: 

 

-freebusy.txt doc from kolabs CVS

- Proko docs 2, doc 3 and doc 5

- Kolab Free Software Groupware Project version 1.9.x

- Konsec Konnector Handbook

-  <http://www.kolab.org/> http://www.kolab.org/

-  <http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_FAQ>
http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_FAQ

-  <http://www.konsec.com/> http://www.konsec.com

- mailing archives of konsec and kolab 

 


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