[H-GEN] Kolab and Horde (was Linux IT Support Services)

[David Powell]

On 06/05/10 00:59, Neil Scott wrote:
> Has anyone had experience in Kolab, Horde, good or bad and possible 
> other solutions.
Yes, my organisation installed Kolab a while back. We made the mistake 
however of installing the debian package versions, rather than the 
openpackage version.

The mail system itself works fine but the groupware features of kolab 
(shared calendars and addressbook) don't work in the version of horde 
that the debian packages use (basically the plain version of horde can't 
create the special imap folders that kolab users to store calendar and 
contact data). You can still create these, but only with Kolab's version 
of Kontact (the KDE mail/groupware client).

So if you are looking to go down that track, install it using the open 
package method that kolab recommends.

Horde itself is a neat webmail (and for us, web-based file access) 
client. It works well and users have had little trouble with it - though 
I did have one who managed to delete, then expunge his entire inbox very 
late one night. He tried to convince me that we had been hacked, until I 
showed him the mail and apache logs that indicated when and from which 
device the mails got deleted.

Cheers,

David