Fwd: Re: Horde 'maintenance'

[Johannes Graumann]

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?

Joh
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