Stable Kontact client for Kolab3

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-03-19 10:15 AM, 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
>>
>
> 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.

One thing to note about the bynari connector is it uses an OST to store 
your mailbox.

So if you have a large mailbox, then the connector becomes unusable.


Geoff



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