KAddressBook on a server?

Martin (KDE) kde at fahrendorf.de
Sun Apr 1 20:48:43 UTC 2012


Am 01.04.2012 20:40, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
> I see there have been some advances in KAddressBook,
> eg it can now use my Google contacts.
> 
> But I'm wondering if it is possible to keep KAdddressBook contacts
> on my server, so that they are available anywhere on my LAN?

Yes, it can (at least the old non akonadi version could). There are
several possibilities:
- Use vCard folder for this
- Use a real groupware server
- Use addressbook in a mail folder (like kolab)

I used all three of them. The address book mail folder is/was limited to
kde pim. The vCard folder can not be accessed by mobile phones so I now
use sogo as a groupware.

Due to problems with kmail2 (deleted many mails) I currently use
thunderbird. But there is a kdepim2 plugin for sogo as well.

Regards
Martin

> 
> At present I am using an OpenLDAP contact list on the server.
> KMail can see this, but I don't think I can add contacts
> from KAddressBook (or KMail) to the OpenLDAP database.
> It's a bit hard to tell, as the KAddressBook online manual
> is seriously deficient.
> 
> (I suppose one shouldn't complain too much, 
> as previously it was 1 line long.
> But I don't understand how people can go to so much trouble
> developing an application, and not document it properly,
> or sometimes at all.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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