[OGo-Users] OpenGroupware to IMAP storage connector

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > Is there a connector that allows the export of my OGo calendars to an
> > > IMAP storage facility? Kontact of KDE supports using IMAP accounts for
> > > storage of address books, calendars and more
> > Technically, that is "Kolab" which stores stuff in IMAP.  Kontact
> > supports Kolab.  I'm not aware of any way to sanely sync something with
> > Kolab's [horrendously misguided] storage mechanism.
> It is? Can you elaborate on that? 

This isn't the appropriate forum to discuss Kolab,  but that information
isn't hard to find.

> I am still looking for a portable, many 
> clients supporting solution for storing my groupware stuff.

The evolution GroupDAV connector is quite stable (for Evolution 2.8)
You can checkout the code from
http://svn.opengroupware.org/OGoProjects/evolution-groupdav/trunk/

> > But there is - 
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kolabsyncml - so you might be able to do
> > something via SyncML / Funambol.
> Sounds a bit complicated for just replicating some data, but I will take a 
> look at it.

"replicating some data" and "complicated" go hand in hand. :)

> > But isn't there a GroupDAV connector for Kontact?  I think there is, but
> > I admittedly don't know the state of it.  It would be better to go to
> > the data directly, syncing is always messier than it seems at first.
> The groupdav connector in Kontact is horribly broken and doesn't even remotely 
> work. Even the ical-downloader for read-only calendars via zidestore is 
> relatively broken and crashes often. I hope for KDE 4, but I am not sure if 
> this is feasible.

Bummer,  but I haven't heard anything about the Kontact connector in
awhile so I'm not surprised.  Funny,
http://www.kontact.org/groupwareservers.php lists just about everything.