Is Kolab for me

[Alain Spineux]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Duffields <dhltd at telus.net> wrote:
> Thank you Allen:
>
> I will try to install it, although it may not be until August as I have much
> pressing work to do and may not be able to put up with the frustration of
> trying to make Kolab play.

I hope the 2.2 will be ready for August.

>
> Yes I will stay away from 64 bit applications.  I have read that there is
> still some problems with them.  Even M$ has had much difficulty with Vista
> which possibly relates to 64 bit implimentation.
>
> You make a point about installing it on a stand-alone computer.  Is there a
> problem if the desktop is better than 2.0 Ghz clock speed.  What diffculties
> might I encounter?

A professional server in an IT room with support contract, is less exposed
than a desktop below a houseplant that need to be watered every day or an
aquarium, used by someone that like to try last software and connect and
disconnect lot of USB devices :-)  But you have your own priorities...

You missed the two important words, RAID and BACKUP.

A PII with 300Mh and 256Mo Ram is fine for 5users, I dont know if you
can still find
such configuration :-)  Then you can fall back to a 2Ghz with a teast 512Mo RAM

>
> Mac
>
> On Friday 16 May 2008 4:49:23 pm you wrote:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Duffields <dhltd at telus.net> wrote:
>> > We have five computers on a small LAN connected to the WAN by a single
>> > router. About six months ago, I decided to give Linux a serious try and
>> > now have both Ubuntu or Xandros installed on four of the five machines
>> > (one uses Windows XP).  It has been a bit of a trial but it all works....
>> > sort of.
>> >
>> > We want to allow all computers to share a common email, contact list, and
>> > calendar.   It appears that the best solution would be to install an IMAP
>> > server on one of the desktop machines but I know very little about such
>> > things.  Since, after trying out several PIM applications, it appears
>> > that Kontact is the best for our needs, it would seem to make sense to
>> > install Kolab as the IMAP server, but I wonder if it is overkill.
>> >
>> > Having used Ubuntu for about six months, I know a little bit about Linux
>> > but not much about networking and almost nothing about servers so my
>> > questions are:
>> > 1. Is Kolab suitable for this application or is it too much for our
>> > needs?
>>
>> Kolab is ideal small office like your!
>>
>> > 2. Can someone with almost no knowledge about server applications to set
>> > up and maintain Kolab?
>>
>> While this is not easy, this is certainly not more difficult than any
>> other product in this category.
>>
>> > According to a Kolab website, documentation for Kolab 2
>> > is only available in German and  though my daughter studied it,I do not
>> > know German myself.
>>
>> You are wrong no documentation exist!
>> Even in German!
>> I joke :-)
>> I remeber some document in German mostly about Kontact configuration,
>> and maybe some word about
>> the server part. I remember the documents were mostly readable, thanks
>> to the very meaningful screenshots.
>>
>> > Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Make a try, install it on a computer, and try to configure some
>> "kontact" to exchange emails internally.
>> Take a look for each feature you want, ask this list.
>> When you are happy connect it to the Internet for real.
>>
>>
>> Having a real server, at least a separate computer, with RAID disk and
>> a backup sytem is better.
>>
>> One tips: avoid to install it on a machine with a 64bits OS version.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> > Thanks
>> > Mac
>> >
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