[horde] A hi from a new user

[Maurice Kellenaers]

Hi all,

I have recently installed horde on my webserver, mainly to have a  
shared calendar app and I was pleasantly surprised to have a simple,  
intuitive and nice interface. Other groupware suites were tried in the  
last year but none were good for me; either too bloated or missing  
items. After a quick test I have decided to use this program for  
'production' (quotes added because it's for my family of five only).  
It all worked out of the box for me without extensive editing of the  
config. Later I have added the IMP (mail) module.

However, I do have a few rants. Nothing serious but I do want to share  
them (maybe I have overlooked an option/setting/something else).
- The first thing is that I can't create a task from a calendar  
appointment. As far as I have read the docs, this is on the  
roadmap/todo list. That is fine by me, so it will come in the future.
- The second thing is the enormous amount of configuration items. I  
believe this can be simplified.
- The last rant and also nearly a showstopper for me, came up when  
figuring out the mailconfig. I broke the config a few times and had to  
'redo from start' by recovering from backup config. This can be imho  
avoided when the admin account is used only for setup and configuring  
and it's credentials stored in a separate file outside of the userbase  
so it's availlable even when the whole thing crashes due to wrong  
configuration/database crash. True, it can create a security risk this  
way. but maybe a thing for the developers to think about.

Yours, Maurice.