[wplug] kontact

[Rob Knapp]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 08:22 -0400, Greg Simkins wrote:
> 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.

I'm currently investigating that.  The open-xchange I looked at was java
based (www.open-xchange.org), and I've had issues getting that to build.

I'm also looking at xchange4linux (www.exchange4linux.org) which is also
being touted as an exchange replacement.

Once we get all of these working and can evaluate each, I'll drop a line
to the mailing list with a short review.

> 
> 
> ----- 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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