[wplug] kontact

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Knapp" <myddrin at myddrin.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [wplug] kontact


> 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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