personal opinion.....

[Scott Newton]

On Sunday, 30 October 2005 23:45, Martin Konold wrote:
> It looks to me like you got the basic architectural points mixed up. As
> mentioned before your concerns don't apply to a thin client setup as the
> _only_ thing users need to carry around in a thin client setup is their
> token to do authentification. This token might be a password, a smartcard
> or a physical piece of the body (e.g. iris scan).
>
> The architecture you are describing is the old well understood
> client-server architecture not a thin client architecture.

Ok. My apologies. Thin client is easier to say than diskless workstation or 
something equivalent. I should have been more specific.

> Last but not least the Kolab data fits perfectly on uptodate USB sticks...

On Monday, 31 October 2005 00:36, Richard Bos wrote:
> I'm not sure about that, if one uses dimap all emails are stored on the USB
> stick.  One will run out of file space on the USB stick quickly in case
> emails are stored including attachments...
> This could be improved by storing the special groupware folders (contacts,
> agenda, notes, etc) with dimap only.  The emails could be retrieved using
> imap.

That would probably be ideal. Just need to define two accounts - one imap for 
mail and one dimap for the groupware folders.

Thanks
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Regards
Scott Newton