On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 21:23 -0800, Mark Horner wrote: > Hi all > > I have a few questions, not answered quickly by the manual and the > go-evolution.org wiki is not responding. I have evolution working > without any problems on my ubuntu machines. The one I use as a server > and I'd like to be able to access my info from any of my machines. I > presume the evolution data server can be used for this (something like > an exchange server). > > 1) Is there a manual for setting it up somewhere? I will gladly read it > but the documentation page on the evolution site doesn't have it. > > 2) If my assumption is wrong is there a generally recommended and simple > way to set up a server for a small group of people so that they can > access their calendars etc. from multiple machines? Just a pointer in > the correct general direction will be great!
Remember there are (roughly) three types of data that Evolution manages: emails, contacts, and calendar. Each of the three can be stored in a central server and accessed from remote machines. Evolution uses open standards and protocols to store the information remotely so you need server applications that support these: for email use IMAP or POP3, for contacts use LDAP, and for calendar use CALDAV. You can build a server to use different applications for each protocol: something like Dovecot[1] for IMAP or POP3, OpenLDAP[2] for LDAP, and Cosmo[3] for CALDAV. Or you could use a "Groupware" application that provides all of this functionality in a single application, kind of like Microsoft Exchange. Examples of groupware applications are: Hula[4] or OpenGroupware[5]. All of these applications should either be available pre-packaged for Ubuntu or you should be able to compile them yourself. The main problem you will discover is that CALDAV support is still quite new, I believe that it is only available in the latest Evolution releases and I am not sure how advanced the support is on the server side. Good luck, Keith. [1] http://www.dovecot.org/ [2] http://www.openldap.org/ [3] http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/CosmoTempHome [4] http://www.hula-project.org/Hula_Project [5] http://www.opengroupware.org/ _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
