Server-Side Distribution Lists Support In Kolab

[Adrien Guillon]

Thank you for your responses.

I did know that I could use he distribution list editor in Kontact, I just was 
not sure if the information would get stored on the server.  Our addresses 
are all in LDAP.  However, I was under the impression that Kolab just stores 
email addresses in the distribution list on the server side... whereas  
KAddressBook puts a unique key in each entry in its distribution list 
referencing the full contact for local distribution lists.

What I would like to be able to do, is have a global repository of 
distribution lists that can be shared corporately, which is composed of 
corporate contacts provided by LDAP.  Even better if users can create their 
own distribution lists, and then decide to "share them" and upload them to 
LDAP and make them globally accessible.

It would also be nice if users could be described by roles, or placed into 
something like UNIX groups, and then their contacts / distribution lists is 
an aggregatation of what they can read.

I'm not sure if Kolab meets this need, but I have been reading documentation 
here and there to find out.

Presently, we have hacked Kontact to give us this functionality using shell 
scripts and local distribution list files.  It's not pretty, but it works for 
now...

Thanks.

AJ