egroupware with kolab2

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Krzysztof Matusik <kyf at arterm.pl> writes:

> Dnia poniedziałek 12 listopad 2007, Gunnar Wrobel napisał:
>> "rajnish kumar" <kumarrajnishgupta at gmail.com> writes:
>> > Dear
>> >          I want to make egroupware as kolab client how kolab support
>> > egroupware.
>>
>> egroupware is incapable to work with the Kolab server. egroupware is
>> fully databased driven and the code don't abstract the DB level at
>> all. So I doubt the developers of egroupware will ever consider making
>> their software Kolab compatible.
> I disagree. It is possible to have LDAP stored user information within 
> egroupware. Furthermore its Felamimail is imap-based. I'm not sure about the 
> calendar though.

Okay, of course. I was too focused on the groupware stuff. It is no
problem to get the IMAP based mail stuff and the LDAP based address
book. You just won't be able to use the groupware data stored in the
Kolab IMAP store. So you'll have to decide if you want to use clients
like Outlook or Kontact (does it support egroupware? -- don't know)
with the Kolab way of storing groupware information or if you use the
egroupware approach of storing stuff in a MySQL db.

> The problem with launching kolab with egroupware or gosa is that it seems to 
> me kolab uses non standard LDAP tree organisation 
> Why there's cn=internal,dc=domain,dc=com instead of something like 
> ou=internal,ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com in kolab?

Well the main user data is on the first hierarchy level. "internal"
contains some hidden data relevant for groups and so on. I guess this
could also use different structures but I'm no LDAP expert.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Is there any strong reason to keep those things incompatible?
>
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> Krzysztof Matusik
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