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

2009-06-19 Thread 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

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

2009-06-19 Thread Steve
Steve wrote: 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. Erm, update...

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

2009-06-16 Thread Steve
Mick wrote: Ah, may have missed it in the original post that you want multi-client access. Probably my fault... my post was mainly wild hand-waving hoping that someone would guess what I meant. :) http://www.simplecustomer.com/ No idea if it's any good, though. This is definitely

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

2009-06-16 Thread Steve
Steve wrote: On the down-side, they both seem to have relatively steep learning curves relative to my primary objective... i.e. keeping notes about communications with infrequent contracts... so, for example, if I were about to meet someone from Acme Corp next week, and I remembered having

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

2009-06-16 Thread Mick
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

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

2009-06-15 Thread Steve
Mick wrote: Have a look at sugar-crm, or any other CRM application. Of course a corporate database to manage customer info may be an overkill, but that's what you're describing, if only at a personal rather than corporate level. I agree with both of these observations. I didn't get very

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

2009-06-15 Thread Mick
On Monday 15 June 2009, Steve wrote: Running a DB is no hassle - I already run both MySQL and Postgres... Various unrelated requirements leave me with Windows on my desktop at the moment - so kmail isn't an ideal tool for me... I've fiddled with Thunderbird's address book but I found it

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

2009-06-14 Thread Steve
I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking for just an address book... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven for asking here. Personally, I'm absolutely awful at remembering

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

2009-06-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 June 2009, Steve wrote: I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking for just an address book... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven for asking here. Personally,

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

2009-06-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Stevegentoo_...@shic.co.uk wrote: I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking for just an address book... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven