Re: [PLUG] Kolab ( was no august presenter)

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

Awesome... Thanks Ian! I've been planning to give Kolab a try once I get 
my network setup at my new place

Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
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> On Friday 11 July 2003 10:44 am, JP Toto wrote:
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> > 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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> [snip]
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> Well both MS Exchange and Open Groupware use a database as a back end.  
> Exchange has a propriatery connector that is reasonably fast.  Both Open 
> Groupware and MS Exchange have webdav interfaces that allow you to access 
> information via webdav.  While this is portable this comes at a speed hit.  
> So if you are looking at mixing remote windows clients and things like 
> evolution, mozilla calender and apples iCal, they may be best for you.
>
> Now where Kolab is different is we use IMAP as the main transport.  This kinda 
> limits us to need connectors.  the Horde+IMP guys are adding kolab support 
> along with our (www.sourcextreme.com) is doing a native outlook connector.
>
> Also someone with reasonable python knowledge or even perl could write a 
> webdav interface since i know the webdav library for python rocks along with 
> its imap support.
>
> The advantage over all other systems IMHO is that we basicly store everything 
> as  a mime encoded vCard (for addresses) or iCal (for journals, meetings and 
> todos) attachments.   Imap can dish up files fast, everything on the plannet 
> can read these file formats, and it makes shareing calenders and filtering 
> them trivial.    In IMAP you have the ability to have public folders, and 
> shared folders.  This allows more filesystem like sharing of contents.
>
> Lastly one thing that I think kolab really has over opengroupware, and 
> exchange4linux is that since we use LDAP to store all properties and configs 
> in the server, you can just point the kolab server at your Novell server, 
> your NT Active directory or your OpenLDAP server, populate it with the kolab 
> schema information and bang (okay you have to know ldap here and its a bang) 
> you now integrated and configured your server.   Visversa, got a linux based 
> PDC that has ldap auth ability, with minor schema changes kolab can act as a 
> central logon point.
>
> Its exciting stuff.
>
> Cheers
> 	-ian reinhart geiser
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