Creating users resource folders without Kontact - is it possible?

[David Powell]

Hi all,

I'm new to the list and to kolab, so I'm probably starting off badly by 
asking a question that's been answered here before - but here goes...

Is it possible to create the various resource folders (Calendar, 
Contacts, Journal etc) for users, without using Kontact?

I've tried via both t'bird and imp (horde) but the folders don't work 
because the required annotations are missing. Adding a new event to a 
user's default calendar in horde returns a "No, Mailbox does not exist" 
error - whether or not the Calendar folder (created via t'bird or horde) 
exists or not.

Most of my users only have access to thunderbird/lightning with the 
syncKolab plugin and horde (3.3.4) with kronolith (2.3.1), which is why 
using kontact isn't possible (unless I manually do it myself for every 
user - which isn't really a viable option).

After a bit of googling on the wiki and the mailing list archives I've 
found a couple of relevant messages on this topic:

- one (see http://is.gd/3390O from 2005) implies that the only way to 
create the special imap folders for calendars and so on is via kontact.
- the other (from 2006 see http://is.gd/3395k) is a perl script, that 
adds new users and sets up the folders at the same time. But my users 
have already been set up (and I don't have the perl skills to figure out 
how to tweak the script for existing users).

Are there other strategies that have been developed since then that I 
missed?

Cheers,

David

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David Powell
Youth Affairs Network of Queensland
Tel: (07) 3844 7713
Web: http://www.yanq.org.au

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