After two years of hard work, the Kolab Groupware Project has released Kolab 2. It allows for sharing of personal folders, calendars and contacts and comes with improved spam and anti-virus capabilities. With Kolab 2 installation is now an easy two-step process, and the admin web interface has many improvements. KDE recently started supplying Kolab for its contributors.
MozillaQuest Magazine has an overview of KMail. Their final evaluation of KMail awards it their "MozillaQuest Magazine Editor's Choice Award". The article includes the top five features from KMail author Ingo Klöcker, an explanation of some of KMail's standout features and some nice screen shots.
For the third time, the town of Osnabrück was the place for a lot of KDE PIM hackers to hold their annual meeting, kindly hosted by Intevation. While the
participants were primarily focused on fixing bugs and getting the various
PIM applications in shape for the KDE 3.4 release, some discussions also
targeted post-3.4 development.
Linux Planet features "KMail in Depth" describing KDE's e-mail application as having 'masses of features and no malware'. The article describes converting to KMail, encrypting & signing e-mail and configuring multiple accounts.
theKompany.com has announced the 1.2 release of Aethera, a personal information management suite for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X. Aethera is commercial Free Software available at no cost under the GNU GPL with some proprietry plugins available to add extra features.
Members of the kdepim and OpenGroupware.org teams met at Magdeburg on the last
weekend of October to implement OpenGroupware.org support in Kontact. The effort
turned out to be a full success. After two days of ferocious hacking the team
From June 27th to July 2nd 2004 the USENIX Annual Technical
Conference took place at Boston. The FREENIX track
featured a refereed paper about Kontact and how it is used as an application
integration framework which was presented by
Cornelius Schumacher. You can find the
paper and
As part of its Grumpy Editor series, LWN.net looks at graphical mail clients. KMail is titled the most configurable and flexible graphical email client. Criticism includes missing features which can be already found in KDE 3.3 Beta 1 like HTML composing and better usage of external spam filters.
In an effort to bring the kde-look.org community's creative power to Kontact, a contest was launched some time ago: the Kontact Splash Screen Contest. It's time to present the winner: Dariusz Arciszewski, and to know a bit about him. There are news at the icons front as well.
Two critical bugs crept into the just released version of KMail. One is related to POP filters and the other to spam filtering - both cause mail loss! They are fixed in CVS and patches are linked on the KDE 3.2 Info Page. The distributors have been asked to update their binary packages.