From kolab-format  Wed Jun 04 12:10:05 2014
From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve () kolabsys ! com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:10:05 +0000
To: kolab-format
Subject: Re: Autconfiguration for kolabclient
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On Wednesday 04 June 2014 13.22:58 Sandro Knau=DF wrote:
> But it can also go diffently like you think:
> 1. setup with (email, pasword (and host))
> 2. the kolab resource start
> 3. finds the config folder and setup the parts, that are missing, ide=
nties,=20
> ldapserver, freebusy, akonadi,...

We should think of multiple clients, and best usability for this, I gue=
ss.

So from the email address we could try to "guesstimate" the host, and q=
uery=20
its "magic" URLs (which might be in IMAP). If we cannot guess it, we ne=
ed to=20
ask the user a second time.

Whatever authentication request we get (there may be other things than=20=

passwords involved) we handle accordingly.

And yes, for Akonadi that may mean we simply kick off the Kolab resourc=
e in a=20
sensible way and it then sets up everything else as per your configurat=
ion. So=20
a fresh machine would mean:

=09(a) Login
=09(b) Start Kontact
=09(c) Enter primary Email
=09(d) Enter authentication
=09(e) Wait

After which this machine has the "reference" setup.

Some complexity to consider with multiple Kolab servers (storing differ=
ent=20
configurations, potentially), as well as other clients (we may want to=20=

automatically generate as many automagic URLs/Files as we can).

So a little tricky under the hood.

But I'd very much be for aiming to making a Kolab configuration object =
the=20
canonical storage for such things, for it is extensible and its evoluti=
on can=20
be made update-safe,

Best regards,
Georg


=2D-=20
Georg C. F. Greve
Chief Executive Officer

Kolab Systems AG=09=09=09=09Make it your Kolab @ http://mykolab.com
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e: greve@kolabsys.com
t: +41 78 904 43 33
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