On Friday 13 September 2002 2:09 pm, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:12:25PM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote:
> >Very interesting news, especially because the project is done for the
> >German gov't. This aims to fully replace MS Exchange, and be compatible
> >with any standards-compliant applications on any platform.
> >
> >http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103168388425502&w=2
> >http://www.kroupware.org/konzept-v1.0.html
>
> My god.... The server components list is ungodly! It requires LDAP which is
> non-trivial to setup/maintain this doesn't really look to be a very
> manageable solution to me. Looks like a lot of moving parts and additional
> headache during upgrades etc.
>
> >Looks like the client app will be based on Kmail, Korganizer, plus some
> >other stuff, and the server will mostly be composed of existing products
> >(LDAP via OpenLDAP, IMAP via Cyrus, SMTP via Postfix, etc.).


Perhaps part of the package will be a "user-friendly" interface.  Most of the 
compents listed can use LDAP for configuration, and with some tweaking, and a 
new app for the admin side, it should be rather nice. Dont know if the plans 
call for such an admin app but that would be very useful.

Jay