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-=Kolab=-

Slides were in German so not everything may be written down.

They made an offer to a tender and got contracted to do Kolab.  In Autumn last year they were contracted for Kolab 2 which has new features and an enabled client.  Designing this solution they chose integration instead of confrontation.  It should be easy to convert from MS Exchange including running both at once.  They were forced to do this very fast, first version done in about one month, rediculous but they did all the features in one month.  

Acceptance with users is critical with Free Software.  

Uses Apache with PHP, postfix, spamassassin, agypten government standard which KDE is the only Free Software to handle.

They have had community involement, e-mail lists, website and received quite a lot of code.  Kolab 2 will be finished in September, next month.  

Most important features are multi domain or location capable, knows about delegation, access control on folders (but not on messages to keep things quick).  Spamassassin and Clam Anti Virus integration.  They have made improvements to ClamAV, with a very fast push DNS based update system.

Runs on Solaris but that is less important with Kolab 2 than it was with Kolab 1.

OpenPKG is used, a mini distribution on your system.

Uses LDAP, IMAP (really a streaming protocol which makes it very efficient but often used as a file type protocol), POP, SMTP, SSL, HTTP, DAV, (FTP), SIEVE, HotSync.  OpenLDAP is much more stable now than it was, twice as fast as Oracle.  A Qt administration program has been contributed by a third party.

The Windows client side is being done by a South African company and they are doing a great job.  The Windows client software for Kolab 1 was not that good and there was no source available.  The guy who is doing it now can get access to Microsoft's source code.

He would like to see Kontact on Mac OS X and Win32, especially after seeing KOrganiser on Windows.  Having to keep supporting Outlook really limits their rate of innovation.

There is a web client, not part of their contract it's a community idea.  It has e-mail and stuff. Called Kolab web client, based on IMP.

Any other installations?  He has several customers who use it, not Windows though.

Point that Kontact is avaiable on Mac OS though Fink.  

Point that Kontact's GPL licence does not allow it to compile with Qt for Windows.  They want to convert licence to GPL with Qt exception but it is difficult to contact all old contributors.