[wplug] kontact

[Greg Simkins]

Do you have any idea how Kolab compares to the Open Exchange that was 
discussed at Ohio Linux last fall?  I see that Suse pushes their own paid 
version of Open Exchange, but there is a free fork, which I was considering 
using.  Perhaps Kolab is better.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Knapp" <myddrin at myddrin.com>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [wplug] kontact


> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 19:55 -0400, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
>> Hey Everybody,
>>
>> This weekend I got a new hard drive and installed FreeBSD from scratch. 
>> From
>> there, I did something I've never done before, for whatever reason.  I 
>> used
>> kontact, and I have to say I was impressed.
>
> Kontact also has an "exchange replacement" server called Kolab that
> interoperates with Outlook, and several other groupware suites. [It even
> has a thunderbird extension that lets you share calendars with non-
> mozilla users.]
>
> I've gotten it to build on debian (which I use at home), but not on
> NetBSD, which I use for work.  (The build is very much geared towards
> linux and freebsd.)
>
> At anyrate, for people looking for a cross-platform exchange
> replacement, it may be worth a look.  I was quite pleased with the most
> recent release (2.0-rc3).
>
>>
>> Kontact is the KDE integrated PIM.  Its got a calendar (kalendar), kmail, 
>> todo
>> functionality, notes, etc.  I used Outlook for a couple of weeks 5 years 
>> ago.
>> There probably are some similarities between kontact and outlook, but I 
>> don't
>> know.  It doesn't feel like a rip off of anything.  Probably has a lot of 
>> the
>> same features as Evolution, but for me, it always seemed like their were
>> problems with Evolution.  Nothing I can put my finger on, it just never 
>> got
>> me hooked.
>>
>> For a while, I have been using Thunderbird / Sunbird as my email and 
>> calendar
>> combo.  I think kontact blows them away.  To me, kontact had better 
>> filtering
>> capabilities (sort by list ID, rather than just To or Cc or From).  The
>> calendar works great.  I've used it pretty heavilly for two days and 
>> haven't
>> seen any real bugs (try saying that about Sunbird).
>>
>> So thats it.  All I'm saying is if you're not 100% satisfied with your 
>> current
>> personal information manager, give kontact a try.  The KDE programs 
>> always
>> seemed like bastard children to me (KDE's a desktop environment not a 
>> browser
>> or mail program, right?)  But I have new respect for the KDE krew.
>>
>> Hope you had a nice weekend,
>>
>> Mike
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