Kontact groupware interoperability matrix

The page contains a matrix for the interoperability of Kontact, the KDE personal information management suite, with respect to the exchange of groupware messages (meeting requests, notices of acceptance and of refusal, meeting changes). The follows discussion on the KDE-PIM mailing list.

Interoperability with what?

It seems to me we should try to maintain interoperability with the following:

• Kontact native
• Kontact + kolab
• Kolab native (does that exist?)
• Outlook 98, 2000, XP, 2003 native (using POP3 or IMAP)
• Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 with Outlook Web Access (which is the web interface running on the Exchange server)
• The full 4x3 matrix of Outlook 98,2000,XP,2003 connected to Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 (using MAPI).

• Gnome Evolution
• OpenGroupware
• eGroupware
• phpGroupware
• more?

Use cases

The following use cases should be checked:

1. Receive invitation: the other system should be able to receive a meeting invitation from a Kontact user. If he/she accepts, this should result in an appointment in the other system's calendar, and a confirmation should be sent to the Kontact user (if the other system supports it). The Kontact use should then see in his or her calendar that the other user has accepted the meeting request.
2. Receive confirmation: if the other system sends a meeting request to the Kontact user, and the Kontact user accepts the invitation, a confirmation is sent to the other system. The other system should mark this confirmation in the calendar.
3. Receive refusal: if the other system sends a meeting request to the Kontact user, and the Kontact user refuses the invitation, the refusal is sent to the other system. The other system should mark this refusal in the calendar.
4. Receive change: a meeting that originated with the Kontact user, and that has been confirmed by the other user, is changed by the Kontact user (in date, location, subject or comments). The other user should receive a message with the changes, and the changes should be applied to the other user's calendar.

Help wanted!

So, if anyone recognises themselves in one of the client(/server) configurations below, please let me or Thorsten know so we can send you test invitations! You can also send us test invitation that we can reply to. Please include the name and version of both the client and server software you are using.

Interoperability matrix

I've filled in the cases that have I've tried or that have been confirmed on this list so far in the matrix. If we can manage to fill in the matrix as much as possible, we can determine which compatibility/legacy groups should be made.

Page by Jan-Pascal van Best