Re: [gentoo-user] Web application for contact management...

[Steve]

Mick wrote: On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Steve wrote: So far I've not got far with either Groupware suite... they're both close - I wonder how hard it would be to tailor them... Hmmm. Have a quick look at InfoLog of eGroupware. I think that either on its own, or as it integrates with AddressBook/ProjectManager/Calendar will do more than what you want. I'll be surprised if you need to customise it at all. I have not installed this application, but from a little reading I did, it seems simply a matter of running apache/MySQL/PHP and unpacking the filesystem of egroupware under your /var/www/htdocs/egroupware or what have you. The process is similar to drupal, or any other php based website/CMS that I have come across. Gentoo helps you do this by emerging egroupware and I suspect you will then run webapp-config to configure it. I'm glad I persevered with eGroupware - it looks as if it should be superb.  While I'm still only beginning the learning curve, its features do seem to be just what I was looking for. One (of many) problems I'm having, however, relate to configuration/email... At the setup phase, I get this rather un-nerving warning: Checking PEAR::Auth_SASL is installed: False PEAR::Auth_SASL is needed by: EMailAdmin, felamimail. You can install it by running: pear install Auth_SASL However, I've installed PEAR::Auth_SASL - and running the command gives me: $ pear install Auth_SASL Ignoring installed package pear/Auth_SASL Nothing to install $ pear -V PEAR Version: 1.6.2 PHP Version: 5.2.9-pl2-gentoo Zend Engine Version: 2.2.0 Running on: Linux svr 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 #5 SMP Tue Jan 8 22:41:42 GMT 2008 i686 $ I've included the pear version info because all the problems I've found via google have related to a Pear version of below 1.6.1. Stumped by why the installation test for SASL failed, I ploughed on to see where it took me.  The answer to this, is as far as trying to access my (working) IMAP server...  eGroupware reports: The connection to the IMAP Server failed!! NO, Authentication failed. I'm stumped as to quite what is wrong - it might be that SASL isn't working; it might be that eGroupware is having a strop that my SSL Cert for my IMAP server doesn't match the FQDN I'm using... or it might mean that I've been bamboozled about how to configure eGroupware and it needs me to configure usernames/passwords somewhere I've not found.  Any hints about this would be much appreciated. On a more positive note, the address book (once I've got the hang of it) combined with Infolog (assuming it continues to behave as it appears to at the moment) are exactly what I was looking for.  What's more, I'm loving the integrated document management, issue tracker - and might even make use of the timesheet facility in future.  eGroupware is an excellent find... Thanks... (all I need to do now is overcome the configuration glitches...) Steve