[imp] how to share an adressbook

[Thierry CHEN]

Thanks for your reply. In fact my problem was that I didn't pay attention to the upper right popup that permits to select the external adressbooks. I think any newbie expects to see all books when he clicks the upper left button "My address books".
Apologies for the "insult". I didn't meant that. In fact, as a PHP developper, working mostly on JOOMLA project, I'm very interested in HORDE project and I was very disapointed to spent 5 days trying to make it work correctly. If you are member of the horde's team and interested in some newbie impressions discovering your application I give you some constructive critics:

  * First your presentation in two apparently different parts webmail/groupware with the same "horde groupware webmail edition" makes things fuzzy. I ended to try both, thinking that the "horde groupware webmail edition" webmail version do not permits shares.

  * Next the install process seems needlessly complex. Why a first shell process to build databases and define an administrator? Can't that be done by PHP scripts ? You should have a look on JOOMLA install process about that.
  * The setup panel is very wide but you still need to access config files for each component
  * My fourth headake was about an error message "could not create folder envoy??" each time I send an email, caused probably by a bad encoded file. (any not english files.po can't be displayed correctly, whatever encoding you choose, utf-8, utf-7 or iso-8859-1) and in french the "Sent" folder translated to "Envoy??" leads to that error with no any mails in the sent folder.
  * Finaly opted for english version. The $conf['user']['select_sentmail_folder'] = false; but still have the "Save a copy in  "Envoy??" setted on new messages that make me loose sent messages if I miss to unset it
  * Did not find a way to receive all my different mails adresses in my horde account, so I had to redirect all my adresses on one, at mail erver level, and when my replies are always done with the same identity. So my replies to horde's list are rejected cause of by sender identity
  * .wav instead .mp3 format forces to install special support in Firefox or having no alarms
  * The javascript alert on calendar prevents any horde access for 1mn without clicking OK in the popup !

I hope these few  feeds back could help. If I wont be able to correct all those issues by myself, as a PHP developper, I would have give up with horde.
But I want to end saying that application is very good and many functionalities are there to make a good job. I believe groupware is condamned to be implemented on WEB and that project is essential.
I will probably customize or debug some things and I'd like to know if it is possible to join your team.

Best regards
TCQuoting Eric Jon Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting Thierry CHEN <frms at webologix.com>:
>
>> I followed the FAQ 
>> http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ/Admin/Config?referrer=FAQ%2FAdmin#
>> but nothing shown as shared in any user account.
>
> Did you actually share it with someone (i.e., give it permissions
> for someone else, etc)?  What did you do exactly?
>
>> Could somebody help on this
>
> Probably, if you provide further details...  Like version of Horde/Turba
> to start with.
>
>> even for documentation somewhere. I start to believe horde is an 
>> undocumented and dead project.
>
> Poorly documented maybe, dead certainly not!  But always good to insult
> a project when asking for help with it... ;)
>
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>> Thierry CHEN
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