kolab integration with custom web site

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Liutauras Adomaitis <liutauras at infosaitas.lt> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to have some recommendations on the issue below?
>
> Currently we use a custom web site to manage our tasks. We would like to 
> integrate it with Kolab in the following way: 
>
> we want to automatically generate a "new calendar event" Kontact pop-up from 
> our website. I.e., lets say a planner is reviewing the tasks in the web 
> browser in our self-developed task list. He picks up a task and presses on 
> it, and a "new calendar event" in Kontact is generated with a task 
> description already inserted in an appropriate way. The planner additionally 
> specifies the time and presses "ok" and, as a result, the event is inserted 
> into Kolab server.
> In some way we imagine this would be similar when in the website one presses 
> on the email link in the website and automatically the default mail 
> application creates a new mail message to that recipient.
>
> The other question is if it is possible to generate custom email messages from 
> web application to send Kolab compatible emails. As I know kolab is working 
> with simple email messages with xml attachments. Is it so? If so, then there 
> should be the way to create xml attachments from the web and send them to 
> Kolab compatible mail clients.

I think it should be possible to have your applications send mails
with Kolab-xml-attachments. You have to make sure they have the
correct format but this should not be much of a problem.

The main question is how you want to have those mails delivered. I
guess it would be easiest to have your application directly accessing
IMAP and storing the mail in the appropriate folder. In case you
application has been written in PHP you could take a look at the
Horde::Kolab PHP module that provides all the necessary functionaltiy
to handle IMAP and Kolab XML.

On the other hand you could also use standard mail transfer so that
these mails get delivered via postfix into the right folder.

Cheers,

Gunnar


>
> let me know if I have been clear enough. 
> Looking forward for any info.
>
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> Liutauras
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