Z-Push and ActiveSync on Mac [was: Kolab on Mac OS X?]

[ABBAS Alain]

Hello 
I m on Macbook pro now too, and the calendar and Contacts can twork with Kolab for the moment (no Caldav/cardav , no EWS (Exchange Services) 
My solution (not free) was to use the very good Ajax2.0 mail product from bynari who work well on Safari or Chrome (event better on chrome because you can turn it in "application"


Regards
Alain


-----Message original-----
De: "Albrecht Dreß" <albrecht.dress at lios-tech.com>
Envoyé: 16 mars 2012 14:20:35 UTC
Pour: kolab-users at kolab.org
Cc: 
Sujet : Re: Z-Push and ActiveSync on Mac [was: Kolab on Mac OS X?]

Hi Jeroen:

Am Freitag 16 März 2012, 14:37:55 schrieb Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems):
> I don't recall this functionality / requirement having been raised 
> before.
> 
> FWIW, one form EWS integration is necessary for the exchange of 
> Free/Busy from(/to?) Exchange 2010, but that's not the same as providing 
> an emulated EWS interface to Kolab Groupware for Mac OS X clients.
> 
> Could you tell me about the client software you are using, and what 
> account options are available (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etcetera)?

E-mail can trivially be read using Mac's integrated mail application through IMAP.  This works perfectly, with the little drawback that it does not allow me to hide the special (Calendar, etc.) folders.

For calendars and address books my approach was to try the integrated Apple tools 'iCal' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICal> and 'Address Book' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Book_%28application%29>.  As afaik the code base is the same as for the iPhone tools which *do* connect to Kolab through Z-Push, I was surprised that it doesn't work.

iCal seems to support CalDav/WebDav, but I don't know how to configure it in Kolab.  Subscribing to *.ics calendar URL's works, but the calendar is read-only, and national utf8 characters are wrongly encoded.

No idea what might work for the address book.


The basic question is: how can I integrate a box running Mac OS X with Kolab?

I know that there were attempts to build Kontact for OS X.  However, afaict, there is no installer-like package which can simply be used.  The last time I tried it was through Macports source repository about a year ago, iirc it took ~72 hours (!!) on my old PowerMac G4 to compile, and there were still many bugs those days.  Needless to say that this is not an acceptable approach for the "normal" user.  The newest announcements are about 1 1/2 years old (e.g. <http://www.linux-magazin.de/Themengebiete/Special/Linuxtag-2010/News/Linuxtag-2010-KDE-Kontact-fuer-Mac-Windows-und-Mobile>; sorry, German...).  Maybe you have more information about the current status?

Thunderbird with Synckolab might be an alternative, but this also was buggy the last time I tried it (which is also some months ago I must admit; will test it again).

The third option might be (as on Windows) a connector for Outlook/Mac.  However, neither of those seems to support OS X.  Needles to say I would prefer a free alternative, btw... ;-), but as my boss already purchased the complete M$ Office package including Outlook for his new Mac, it would be a solution for my current peck of trouble.

I am fully aware of the fact that Mac's are only a small fraction of the market.  However, in particular the notebooks gained some popularity so IMHO there should be a concept how they can be integrated *easily* with Kolab.

Thanks, Albrecht.

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