Roundcube and Group/Distribution List

Henning Holly henne.gwath at gmx.de
Fri Apr 26 08:30:11 CEST 2013


Hi,

Groups, created by roundcube-users are stored as IMAP objects in the
contacts-folder. As far as I know, they are handled by roundcube just as
distgroups created in ldap. If you create a shared addressbook everyone
would be able to use them.

Henning

Am 26.04.2013 00:23, schrieb Shawn Walker:
> On 4/25/2013 4:52 PM, Chloé Desoutter wrote:
>> > Le 25/04/2013 23:28, Shawn Walker a écrit :
>>> >> On 4/25/2013 4:10 PM, Chloé Desoutter wrote:
>>>> >>> Le 25/04/2013 23:09, Shawn Walker a écrit :
>>>>> >>>> I have Roundcube Webmail 0.9-git installed and I'm trying to create a
>>>>> >>>> contact group/distribution list and I'm not seeing anywhere how I can
>>>>> >>>> create this.
>>>> >>> This is to be done in the kolab-webadmin, not in Roundcube.
>>> >> A user cannot create their own personal group list?  What I'm working on
>>> >> is have our Outlook Connector read Kolab 3 distlist into Outlook and
>>> >> need so data from roundcube or kolab-webadmin to be able to read some.
>> > AFAIK they can't in Roundcube. The fact is distribution lists are
>> > written into the LDAP, so you'd need write access to generate them. I
>> > guess these groups have to stay client-side or that it could be
>> > implemented as an IMAP hack.
>> >
>> > Yours truly
> Interesting.   So, if I do put a distlist in the contacts folder, would 
> Roundcube read it or ignore it?  The reason is that if 
> kolabformatchecker passes the distlist that I created and as long as 
> Outlook Connector can still retrieve the distlist that it uploaded into 
> the contacts folder on the server, we should be okay.  But, I can see 
> users complaining about not being able to see their distlist that they 
> put on the server not readable in Roundcube.  So, we just need to be 
> prepared for that to let our users know of the limitation.
> 
> Regards,
> Shawn




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