[PLUG] Kolab ( was no august presenter)

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

Ian... How was you say Kolab differs from a server like Open Groupware 
or MS Exchange - aside from the fact that Exchange only runs on Windows...

Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:

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> On Friday 11 July 2003 06:40 am, JP Toto wrote:
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> > I would definitely enjoy a tour through the Kolab
> > server! Isn't 1.0 supposed to be released shortly???
>
> We seem to be held up waiting for Duke Nukem Forever :P
>
> There are some issues remaining, but the current server is very usable.  The 
> client is the sticker currently.  The most annoying part is the server has 
> been pretty much finished now for about 4 months and is now just being 
> tweaked.  I guess this is good, but im hot to show off my shinney now toy.  
>
> Kolab has some technical advantages over other systems and has some very 
> impressive open standards behind it.  I would even be as brave as to boast it 
> to be the most open of all approaches, but then again im biased ;)
>
> The KDE Client is stable enough for testing currently, but still has rough 
> edges to hammer out.  We may also have a demo for our GPL Outlook connector 
> by then too.
>
> For those who are not up on the technical details Kolab is an Open Source 
> email and group calender server.  It uses IMAP as the main data store, SIEVE 
> as the filtering system (so yes you can actually apply filters to addresses, 
> and calender events), Data is stored on the server in vCard and iCal file 
> formats as message attachments, so migration on and off of the server is a 
> matter of perl scripts.  Lastly all config data is stored in LDAP so you can 
> configure every aspect of the server (email accounts, server name, etc...) 
> all via ldap.  This makes clustering trivial and integration into something 
> like NDS or ActiveDirectory much easier.
>
> Its cool stuff!  If anyone wants to hear more I can talk all night ;)
>
> Cheers
> 	-ian reinhart geiser
>
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