[horde] Another two questions

[Spyros Tsiolis]

--- On Fri, 22/10/10, Niels Dettenbach <nd at syndicat.com> wrote:

> If you won't offer ingo (filtering / rules) at all (or your
> mailserver did not 
> offer any filtering) you may disable / delete it (the whole
> folder "ingo").



OK, looks like I have some further reading/investigating to do :-)



> If you want to offer filtering (i.e. very powerful by
> SIEVE) the default 
> preferences blacklist / whitelist could makes sense for
> your users as they may 
> have their own usage preferences an blocking / whitelisting
> could be used to 
> avoid unwanted filtering in further filters of your users.


I strongly believe that running and maintaining a proper network
with users/computer is _not_ a democracy ! So, no, I don't (and
will never) give permissions to users to keep their own white/
blacklists.
Trust me on this.


 
> I'm not shure what kind of spam filtering do you do, but
> filtering or the 


I use a proxy called ASSP. Can't say how many features it has
here because you will say I am out of context. 
Anyone who is interested can check the sourceforge page :

       http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/assp


>  default filters may could be used to give users the option
> to bypass your spam 
> rules with explicite addresses etc.
> 
> If you really want to have deleted the default filters i
> assume you have to 
> delete / comment out it in the ingo/config/pres.php and
> conf.php (not shure if 
> that will be enough).


Fair enough. I'll check it. Thanks for the help.


> 
> > q2. Is there any chance I can (at least) import my
> > contacts list from a POP3/SMTP Outlook 2000 sp3 client
> ?
> > I have a lot of mail contacts and I wouldn't want to
> re-enter
> > everything manually.
> Afaik (did not use it) MS Outlook is not very open to
> standards if you want to 
> fiddel with PIM data. But a typical way to use Horde is to
> use it as a central 
> store of PIM / Groupware data (calendar, contacts, notices
> etc.) for different 
> end user devices / platforms. You may take a look at
> funambol and the horde 
> sync howto for further details how to sync Outlook or other
> PIM apps with 
> Horde.


Right.


> Afair Outlook is able to export into CSV (and horde to read
> CSV) but this is a 
> little bit tricky because you have to make shure that the
> rows are on the 
> right places within your CSV table. I would prefer the
> funambol sync way.
> 
> 
> cheers and
> best regards,
> 
> 
> Niels.


Right. Thank you once more Niels !

Best Regards,

s.


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"I merely function as a channel that filters 
music through the chaos of noise"
 - Vangelis