Hi, On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 02:49, Miles Lane wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 17:14, Eelco van Beek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We've created a database based mail package called Dbmail > > (www.dbmail.org). Both pop server and imap server in this package are > > fully compatible with evolution. Although i must say that evolution has > > a few weirdnesses in handling a session with the imap server (for > > example the way evolution fetches headers). If these weirdnesses are > > gone evolution will be even more stable and a lot faster (well, for sure > > if you use imap). > > I would be delighted if you would take the time to itemize these > problems and document the changes that would be needed to yield > the improvement in performance and interoperability you foresee.
I've cc-ed this message to the imap developer of dbmail. > > It might be an idea to work together on integrating evolution with > > dbmail. We could add features for shared calenders; server based > > addressbooks.. stuff like that. > > I know that support for IMAP server hosted calendars is planned > once the specification is finished and has become an approved > standard. Work on this support probably won't begin until the > standard is approved. This is important, because we want > Evolution's implementation to work with everyone else's. > > I can't speak for the Evolution team in regards to integration > with dbmail, but my personal opinion is that this might be an > interesting project if it could be pursued in such a way that > the products did not need to be bundled together. Also, the > integration would need to not interfere with interoperability > with other servers. Well, indeed it would be a possibility to use imap for storing a calendar. But it won't provide real calendar sharing, which involves user/rights management. I have no idea if there's a standard on shared calendars / addressbooks. We could create an XML DTD for this kind of communication. If anybody got any thoughts about this, please let me know. Best regards, Eelco _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
