Fwd: Re: Horde 'maintenance'

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Zitat von Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann at web.de>:

> On Sunday 17 October 2010 21:17:44 Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> Zitat von Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at kolabsys.com>:
>> > Sounds like this should go to the users mailing list...
>> >
>> > ----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht von johannes_graumann at web.de -----
>> >
>> >       Datum: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:53:42 +0200
>> >
>> >         Von: Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann at web.de>
>> >
>> >     Betreff: Re: Horde 'maintenance'
>> >
>> >          An: Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at kolabsys.com>
>> >
>> > Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> >> Zitat von Skip Morse <skipmorse at gmail.com>:
>> >>> Hi All...
>> >>>
>> >>> every so often when I log into horde it gives me the option to
>> >>> 'perform maintenance' and the thing selected is to delete all old
>> >>> linked attachments (more than 6 months old)...
>> >>>
>> >>> I just choose to 'skip it', but my concern is that I have write access
>> >>> to some group folders that need the attachments to stay there...
>> >>>
>> >>> Would horde go through all folders even shared ones, or just act on my
>> >>> user's folder?
>> >>
>> >> I assume that you misunderstand the feature (though I have to admit
>> >> that it is easy to misunderstand it).
>> >>
>> >> "linked attachments" refers to a special feature of the web client.
>> >>
>> >> Assume you communicate with somebody that you know will bounce message
>> >> with size > 5MB. You would like to send that person a 10MB message
>> >> though. With the Kolab web client you can send the message that won't
>> >> contain the actual attachment but just a link to a file that can be
>> >> downloaded from the web server (potentially with a one time token that
>> >> get's invalidated once the file was successfully downloaded once).
>> >>
>> >> This is what is called a "linked attachment".
>> >>
>> >> If you use the feature then cleaning up such linked attachments
>> >> periodically may make sense. I admit though that the way it works in
>> >> the current client is somewhat annoying. The request should be omitted
>> >> if the user does not actually use the feature.
>> >>
>> >> In any case this will *not* delete any attachments from your mails or
>> >> any shared folders.
>> >
>> > Whoa! How d I use this feature from within kontact?
>>
>> You don't :(
>>
>> This is only offered by the web client at the moment. The web client
>> is reachable via http://... but your Kontact is not. So for the web
>> client it is no problem to withhold an attachment when sending an
>> e-mail and offer it for download instead. To offer the same feature
>> for Kontact would be possible but requires a decent amount of work (on
>> the side of the client and the server). Though I assume one could base
>> it on the functionality already provided by the Kolab web client.
>
> Reread your original post and found "web client" ... have actually found the
> functionality now and am testing ... is it possible that this feature is NOT
> available from the "Dynamic" version of Horde?

Doh.. yes, looks like it is only available in the static variant. I  
admit I don't use it myself so I never noticed. Feel free to log an  
issue about it. I'm pretty certain one of the newer Horde versions  
will resolve this.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Joh
>



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