Horde Webmail fixing for the Kolab Groupware Server

The Kolab on Gentoo overlay now features a set of patches that completely breaks ... err ... fixes integration of the Horde webmail with the kolab groupware server.

While Horde has been declared the official web client for the Kolab groupware server the current implementation had a number of bugs that made it impossible to use shared address books, note books, task lists etc. in a similar manner to Outlook and Kontact.

I did break the underlying Kolab driver apart and reimplemented an alternative that hopefully resolves these problems. The new implementation is only based on the functionality of the IMAP server which makes sense since all groupware information is stored there. The former driver needed an additional mysql backend which should now be obsolete.

The code is definitely still alpha. Nevertheless I did integrate it into the horde ebuilds since I believe that the situation cannot be much worse than it was before. I'd be happy about feedback from the users of the overlay.

The patches will be sent upstream to the horde project soon and hopefully be integrated into cvs after they have been reviewed.

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