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