1. I keep my email on my desktop (my "home server"), running CentOS-5.5 . I run dovecot/IMAP on this desktop, allowing me to access my email on one of several laptops, all running Fedora-13. [I do not normally access email directly on my desktop.]
I run an OpenLDAP server on my desktop, with an LDAP address book. I can use this with KMail, in the sense that if I start a "To" line in New Message, possible completions in the LDAP address book are listed.
As far as I can tell, this LDAP address book is not copied to my laptop; the information is all stored on the desktop.
Is this setup compatible with using KAddressBook-4.4.4 on my laptop?
2. If I go to KMail/KAddressBook on my laptop, I see one contact listed in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/ and also in ~/.local/share/contacts/ .
However, I do not see any of the (many) contacts in my LDAP address book, although this source is listed in KAddressBook=>Settings=>Configure KAddressBook=>LDAP Server Settings
Does KMail access the LDAP server directly? Or must it go through KAddressBook? If the latter, why do I not see these entries in KAddressBook?
3. Must I run mysqld on my laptop for KAddressBook? I'm presently running a MySQL server on my desktop. Can I use this?
[I'm not clear what is meant by saying that one must be running MySQL. Does it mean mysql-client or mysqld ?]
4. I have two different System Settings icons in my f-menu:
a) A System Settings icon at the top level (with Development, Education, etc)
b) An entry at level 2 under Settings=>System Settings
Is this unusual?
Timothy Murphy wrote:
- Must I run mysqld on my laptop for KAddressBook?
I'm presently running a MySQL server on my desktop. Can I use this?
Yes, Akonadi can be set up to use a remote MySQL server. (The Akonadi server itself, on the other hand, will always be local.) Just note that mysql- server will still be dragged in by dependencies due to technical limitations of the RPM dependency system, it just won't be running locally.
- I have two different System Settings icons in my f-menu:
a) A System Settings icon at the top level (with Development, Education, etc)
b) An entry at level 2 under Settings=>System Settings
Is this unusual?
Place a) is as part of the Favorites list, place b) is its location in the menu. Other "favorites" are also handled this way.
That said, upstream doesn't show System Settings in the Applications menu at all, but only in the Computer menu, and our current 4.5 RC2 packages now only retain the entry in the Computer section (because the patch which changed this got dropped). We need to decide whether we want to rebase/rewrite the patch or stick with the upstream default.
Kevin Kofler
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