Stable Kontact client for Kolab3

[Mat Cantin]

On 2013-03-19 9:10, Bruce Marriner wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:10 AM CDT, Mat Cantin
> <mat at cantinbrothers.ca> wrote:
> 
>> I have tried Outlook 2013 with ActiveSync, it actually didn't really
>> work very well. It seem to poll the server way to much and often
>> "refresh" the inbox, specially when changing folders. Also, it would 
>> not
>> sync any other folder than the Inbox regardless of what folders were 
>> set
>> to sync in the kolab settings. The other annoying thing was that it
>> would show all the calendars set to sync as one calendar with no way 
>> to
>> tell which was which. My recommendation is to stay away from this for
>> now.
>> 
>> On a related note, I've gotten some good new from Bynari. In my
>> opinion, if you want a fat client on Windows, Outlook with the Bynari
>> connector this is the way to go.
>> 
>> Following is there message to me:
>> 
>> -------- Origina l Messag e --------
>> Subject: Re: Kolab 3 support?
>> Date: 2013-03-13 16:33
>> From: Joel Ammor
>> To: Mat Cantin
>> 
>> Hi Matt
>> 
>> We have decided to support k3 and are working on the new connector. 
>> We
>> expect to release it in 3-6 weeks
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
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> 
> Just to add to this. I also setup Outlook 2013 with Kolab. I had all
> the same problems where Outlook only shows a single Contacts,
> Calendar, and Tasks "folder" and all shared or other folders on the
> Kolab server will get synced into this single folder. Also I was
> unable to create sub-folders in the Inbox, or additional mail folders
> outside of the Inbox. Any additional mail folders on Kolab w ouldn't
> show up in Outlook either.
> 
> On the plus side, the inbox, and single Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks
> did seem to work and sync correctly.
> 
> I also contacted Bynari and they gave me the same news and also told
> me that the new version should support Outlook 2013.
> 
> Though, it would be great if the Activesync could work because the
> connector can become expensive quickly with multiple clients. I'm not
> sure how many of the above problems are a fault of Kolab activesync vs
> a limitation of Outlook's activesync. It seemed even within Outlook I
> couldn't create separate Calendars or Contact folders.

I actually think Activesync is not the way to go for desktop clients. 
It might be ok for the one-off user, but Activesync does not support any 
of the advanced features that are found in the webmail interface or the 
Bynari connector such as being able to share resources with other users 
like mail boxes, calendars and contacts, setting up server side filters 
etc. For my users, many who come from an Exchange environment, these 
features are essential to have for the desktop client.

--
Mat