Here's the scenario: A number of Kontact users on a local network have their own address books and corresponding distribution lists. There is the need to have a global address book and dist lists to avoid the obvious pitfalls of maintaining multiple copies.
While Kontact can hook into an LDAP back end, maintaining that back end using some sort of external interface (since it cannot be done within Kontact) is problematic - either the standard command line tools or something like phpldapadmin would do, but in both cases, administration by end users is required and neither tool is appropriate for the skillset at hand. Further, global distribution lists are required from the global address book which is not something I think is possible just using the simple LDAP connection alone with Kontact. If I'm wrong about that, please chime in. Before I go wandering off into the Kolab wilderness, never to be heard from again, does anybody know if Kolab supports this global dist list capability? I know you can hook Kontact into Kolab and use the addressbook that way, but what I am not sure is if that global address book provided by Kolab will also let users use dist lists globally in the same way that they currently do with their own local copies. Does anybody have any experience in this area and know for certain if this will or will not work? I'm having some difficulty trying to nail down this feature in the docs without going through the trouble of setting of a test environment. Alternatively, is there something else that would work for a global address book and global dist list with Kontact? There is no requirement at this time for anything other than the address book and dist list features of Kolab so Kolab might be overkill if something else will do the trick. Thanks for any insight! Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
