Fedora/KDE + Windows contact list

[Timothy Murphy]

Does kdepim/kaddressbook enable one now
to keep a common mailing list for Fedora/KDE
and the unspeakable OS?

Maybe LDAP is the simplest solution?

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

[Markus]

The simplest solution would be to use Kontact on Windows as well and share the 
same std.vcf file on both OS. As long as not two different programs try to 
write the file at the same time, it should be no problem.

Markus

On Thursday 08 July 2010 13:21:19 Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  Does kdepim/kaddressbook enable one now
>  to keep a common mailing list for Fedora/KDE
>  and the unspeakable OS?
>  
>  Maybe LDAP is the simplest solution?

[Kevin Kofler]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  How would one run Kontact on Windows? 
http://windows.kde.org/

>  Also, how would it interface with Windows Outlook? 
Not at all, it would replace it. You can have both installed, but normally 
you'd only use one or the other.

        Kevin Kofler

[Timothy Murphy]

Markus wrote:

> > Does kdepim/kaddressbook enable one now
> > to keep a common mailing list for Fedora/KDE
> > and the unspeakable OS?
> > 
> > Maybe LDAP is the simplest solution? 
>  The simplest solution would be to use Kontact on Windows as well and
> share
>  the same std.vcf file on both OS. As long as not two different programs
>  try to write the file at the same time, it should be no problem. 
How would one run Kontact on Windows?
Also, how would it interface with Windows Outlook?

At a quick look, I was not able to see
where either Outlook or KMail keep their contacts.
KMail is pretty good at completing email addresses for me,
but I couldn't see where it keeps this data.

To be honest, I am not clear about the connection, if any,
between Kontact and KAddressBook and KMail.
Do they all share the same std.vcf's?

It does seem that VCF format is a sort of link between KDE and Windows,
but I don't see how to exploit it.




-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

[Markus]

On Friday 09 July 2010 16:00:56 Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  How would one run Kontact on Windows?
>  Also, how would it interface with Windows Outlook? 
You didn't ask about Outlook, just Windows. And Kontact is available for 
Windows as well, just like most other KDE programs.

http://windows.kde.org/
http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kontact_for_Windows_%28Enterprise-5%29

Markus

[Timothy Murphy]

Kevin Kofler wrote:

> > How would one run Kontact on Windows?
>  
>  http://windows.kde.org/
>  
> > Also, how would it interface with Windows Outlook?
>  
>  Not at all, it would replace it. You can have both installed, but normally
>  you'd only use one or the other. 
OK, thanks, this seems like an interesting project,
but I don't think it would really suit my situation,
where I envisage a standard Windows Outlook user
sharing an address book with a Fedora/KMail user.

As far as I can see, this should be possible using LDAP,
since KMail and Outlook both seem able to use LDAP address books.
It is still not clear to me if VCF data could be shared in the same way.



-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Saturday 10 July 2010 04:35:21 Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  Kevin Kofler wrote:
>  >> How would one run Kontact on Windows?
>  > 
>  > http://windows.kde.org/
>  > 
>  >> Also, how would it interface with Windows Outlook?
>  > 
>  > Not at all, it would replace it. You can have both installed, but
>  > normally you'd only use one or the other.
>  
>  OK, thanks, this seems like an interesting project,
>  but I don't think it would really suit my situation,
>  where I envisage a standard Windows Outlook user
>  sharing an address book with a Fedora/KMail user.
>  
>  As far as I can see, this should be possible using LDAP,
>  since KMail and Outlook both seem able to use LDAP address books.
>  It is still not clear to me if VCF data could be shared in the same way. 
LDAP should work. I don't know how to connect to Exchange via LDAP but it 
works great with Zimbra.

Eli

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