[horde] Mnemo driver

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Tim Streit <ledoktre at meanie.us>:
>
>> Good morning everyone,
>>
>> As was previously discussed on this list about Mnemo — there is no  
>> Notes standard out there like there is for Calendar (CalDav).  So  
>> its really up in the air what to do — and presently Mnemo stores it  
>> in its own table in the database, and it works well.  No argument  
>> there.  A lot of my users however own Apple products.
>>
>> So…. a quick question related to Mnemo and its drivers.  I am  
>> inquiring about a couple of things.
>>
>> 1.  Kolab as we all know stores everything in IMAP folders.  Notes,  
>> Tasks, Calendar, etc.  My Apple customers would all be much happier  
>> if we stored Notes in IMAP rather than the Horde Database.  What  
>> configuration would it take to use Kolab drivers to configure Notes  
>> only to be stored in an IMAP folder?  Such that the Mnemo app would  
>> function, ActiveSync would function, etc using the “Notes” IMAP  
>> folder?
>>
>> 2.  If that is not possible without fully installing Kolab, then my  
>> next question is, I assume then that it would take a custom driver  
>> to achieve this functionality then — so what would that take to get  
>> a custom driver programmed for Mnemo so that this functionality was  
>> an option?
>>
>> I am sure that if it were put to a vote, there would be a number of  
>> users who would at least like the option of doing this.  While  
>> there may not be a standard, Apple has had a big hand in CardDAV  
>> and CalDAV, and I think that given Apples user base, putting notes  
>> in the Notes IMAP folder is the closest thing we have got right now  
>> to a standard.  It should at least be an option.
>
>
> There already exists a Kolab driver for Mnemo. You need to enable  
> Kolab storage in the main Horde config, and then choose the Kolab  
> driver as storage for Mnemo.

That won't help much though, because Kolab has it's own data format  
(again, no standard here for notes), that I'm pretty sure wouldn't be  
understood by Apple.

So you indeed would need a separate backend driver that uses IMAP for  
storage, but the data format that Apple happens to use for notes.

> As far as ActiveSync goes, you will likely run into issues with  
> Kolab backed data. There is a patch/pull-request that adds full  
> history support to kolab backed data, but it's not in the main Horde  
> distribution for various reasons.  
> https://github.com/horde/horde/pull/48

History support will soon be integrated, but that won't help here anyway.

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Jan Schneider
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