KAddressBook on a server?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 3 18:27:08 UTC 2012
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On 03/04/12 10:48, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> As for the "Kolab client", it's basically the same thing as
>> Kontact, which we already ship in kdepim. (And yes, the latest
>> Kolab client is also the Akonadi-based Kontact, though they do
>> have a branch based on the old pre- Akonadi Kontact and even a
>> KDE 3 branch too, which are maintained to some extent, for their
>> enterprise customers.)
>
> OK, thanks. I'll look again at Kontact, and see if it is possible
> (in a relatively easy way) to use with contacts on a remote
> server.
>
> This seems to me such an obvious need that I am surprised it does
> not get top priority in Fedora/KDE. I think I can say that if it is
> possible to do this in Fedora/KDE then it is certainly not obvious,
> or well-documented if documented at all.
>
> Currently I use an ugly mixture of openLDAP and Google contacts to
> make contacts available on my home network (including smart
> phones). But one of the problems with this is that there seems to
> be no direct way of adding contacts from within KMail or
> KAddressBook.
>
> Bizarrely, I can access my openLDAP contacts in KMail, but don't
> seem able to in Kontact or KAddressBook. (The Search facility in
> both the latter is extraordinarily bad.)
>
> Maybe something like phpMyAdmin or phpLDAPadmin to access and edit
> contacts on a server would be nice.
>
AddressBook used to be possible on a server - I used it as such - then
about 3 years ago, IIRC, we were told that it is no longer possible.
What I never discovered was the reason for that. It might help a
reasoned discussion if we were told the issues that influence this.
Anne
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