[imp] Re: [kronolith] Kronolith and Outlook plugin/connector

[Dennis Ortsen]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the update. I'm very interested in having an Outlook
connector/plugin that can talk to either kronolith or mysql. I'm also pretty
sure there are more people interested in having such a solution. I't's only
a matter of getting the word out probably and people will respond
(hopefully).

You see more and more vendors coming to the market with linux based
email/groupware servers. They have certain plugins available that could
compete with Microsofts Exchange environment. Most of the time those plugins
only work on their linux based server, so it's probably something in C++ in
combination with VB or any other Office extension.

I'm very much interested in having a Outlook plugin/connector that can talk
to kronolith (shared calenders).
Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, but only a small admin that had to learn
things the hard way. I don't think I can help you with programming, but I
would make an excellent test user :-)

The way I see it, is that if the Horde project has a good basic connector to
Outlook that perhaps in the future can be expanded on other Horde apps as
well (like turba, nag), Horde would be the first to have something like
this, a powerful environment and for free :-). That would really boost the
Horde project.

Thanks,

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Gimelfarb" <dawebber at atlas.cz>
To: "Mr. Mosaic" <mosaic at pinetree.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:22 AM
Subject: Re: [kronolith] Kronolith and Outlook plugin/connector


> Dennis,
> I was the one who posted the message about the connector. I did write
> some code that could be used as a plug-in to outlook and send diffs to
> Kronolith. The key word is "could". At the time, Kronolith folks
> couldn't decide how they want to transfer data, the sync API wasn't
> finished, and even after it was, there were tons of bugs. I was waiting
> for Kr 1.1. Now, that it's out and hopefully, all the bugs are out, I
> can finally resume working on the connector, if there is interest that
> is.
> I originally wrote it in VB, but then decided to re-write it in C#.
> This will give me possibility to interface not only with Kronolith, but
> other some other calendars as well, as C# has better support for things
> like XML-RPC and upcoming SyncML.
>
> If you need more info, just let me know, and I'd be glad to share it
> with you.
>
> Best regards,
>              Mark.
>
>