Quoting Thierry CHEN <[email protected]>:
Thanks for your reply. In fact my problem was that I didn't pay
attention to the upper right popup that permits to select the
external adressbooks. I think any newbie expects to see all books
when he clicks the upper left button "My address books".
Apologies for the "insult". I didn't meant that. In fact, as a PHP
developper, working mostly on JOOMLA project, I'm very interested in
HORDE project and I was very disapointed to spent 5 days trying to
make it work correctly. If you are member of the horde's team and
interested in some newbie impressions discovering your application I
give you some constructive critics:
* First your presentation in two apparently different parts
webmail/groupware with the same "horde groupware webmail edition"
makes things fuzzy. I ended to try both, thinking that the "horde
groupware webmail edition" webmail version do not permits shares.
What would make you think that? At the very least, the webpage for
each of those editions is pretty clear that it supports sharing. Both
the Horde Groupware and the Horde Groupware Webmail edition are
bundles to make installing a basic horde install simpler.
* Next the install process seems needlessly complex. Why a first
shell process to build databases and define an administrator? Can't
that be done by PHP scripts ? You should have a look on JOOMLA
install process about that.
Horde supports *many* different types of configurations. We support a
very large number of backend servers for each type of service. If you
have an existing data store in place for, say, address books, there is
a very large chance that Horde can use the data as-is for it's data
store for Turba, allowing you to keep existing infrastructure in
place. That type of flexibility comes at the cost of increased
complexity for configuration. We make no assumptions that the way *we*
want your data stored or configured is the way you want to be
configured.
* The setup panel is very wide but you still need to access config
files for each component
See last comment.
* My fourth headake was about an error message "could not create
folder envoy??" each time I send an email, caused probably by a bad
encoded file. (any not english files.po can't be displayed
correctly, whatever encoding you choose, utf-8, utf-7 or iso-8859-1)
and in french the "Sent" folder translated to "Envoy??" leads to
that error with no any mails in the sent folder.
* Finaly opted for english version. The
$conf['user']['select_sentmail_folder'] = false; but still have the
"Save a copy in "Envoy??" setted on new messages that make me loose
sent messages if I miss to unset it
I have no idea what this is. Is it possible it's an error being
returned from your imap server? If you feel it's an error in
translation, you can send a message to the translations list
([email protected]).
* Did not find a way to receive all my different mails adresses in
my horde account, so I had to redirect all my adresses on one, at
mail erver level, and when my replies are always done with the same
identity. So my replies to horde's list are rejected cause of by
sender identity
Horde/IMP does not support multiple email accounts per one Horde
account. The next version of IMP is set to include this feature. the
current stable version *does*, however support using fetchmail to
retrieve mail from other accounts into the email account that is
associated with your horde login.
* .wav instead .mp3 format forces to install special support in
Firefox or having no alarms
* The javascript alert on calendar prevents any horde access for
1mn without clicking OK in the popup !
I have no idea what you mean by this.
I hope these few feeds back could help. If I wont be able to
correct all those issues by myself, as a PHP developper, I would
have give up with horde.
But I want to end saying that application is very good and many
functionalities are there to make a good job. I believe groupware is
condamned to be implemented on WEB and that project is essential.
I will probably customize or debug some things and I'd like to know
if it is possible to join your team.
Patches, suggestions, questions should be directed to the
[email protected] mailing list. Alternatively, you may submit
bug/feature request tickets ... preferably with patches ;) at
bugs.horde.org.
Thanks,
mike
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