[KLUG Members] Re: UNIX, centralized groupware storage and client-server/network-file access -- WAS: Evolution 1.0 is here!

[Adam Williams]

>>Question though: if a user workstation melts for whatever reason,
>>their calendar info melts too, right?
>Actually, that's more of a Windows issue, not so much on UNIX.  On UNIX,
>it depends on their home directory.  Unlike E-mail (where is *NOT*
>recommended you access over an NFS mount, especially when the E-mail in
>in Mbox**), calandering/contact info is probably not as extensive as far
>as disk usage.  So if you NFS mount their home directory, I assume that
>info is there.
>I need to play with this.  Again, at this point, I'll assume that if you
>use IMAP for E-mail -- stored on server, access via client/server
>(because Mbox** over NFS is "bad") -- but everything else in user home
>directory -- stored on server, access via NFS mount -- the traffic is
>not too terribly bad.

"It can read or import mailboxes from Netscape, Outlook Express, UNIX
mbox, Eudora and other Linux and UNIX email formats."

I can certainly use IMAP server side folders,  if you create a local
folder it creates an "indexed" mbox.

Calendar information is stored as "ics"  That is the iCalendar standard
format.

The address book is a Berkley DB file (so it should be fast).