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  • Horde Updates: Base module 3.3.10 RPMs for SLES and OpenSUSE

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    New Horde Version available as OpenSUSE package Horde just released version 3.3.10 of their base application along with some minor updates to imp and dimp. After 3.3.9 had some regressions that caused trouble editing preferences, I decided to upgrade the horde RPMs for OpenSUSE and SLES 11 to the new release. This also removed the dependency…

  • Horde 3.3.9 SLES 11SP1 and OpenSUSE RPMs

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    Horde has been in Suse Linux for many years, but recently the packages were outdated, some even missing. I have taken over the horde packages in the OpenSUSE and SLES 11 PHP applications repository.  Currently Horde has been updated to 3.3.9, but also mimp, mnemo, turba, and kronolith have been updated to recent versions. The…

  • Horde DIMP Portal: Let Dimp use classic Horde Portal settings

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    When you use DIMP, the AJAX frontend to Horde Groupware‘s widely used IMP webmailer, you usually want to hide the classic horde sidebar and the horde portal itself. Though DIMP provides its own portal page to display Horde Blocks, it does not provide any configuration tool for them but provides one static set for all…

  • Horde 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 migration patch broken? Alternative Patch!

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    If you want to patch a Horde 3.3.5 installation pulled from  the official Horde 3.3.5 tarball using the  official Horde 3.3.6 patch you will notice a lot of patch rejects, which render the patch file essentially broken. Reason: The patch assumes that version identifier strings of both 3.3.5 and 3.3.6 use the dash format for…

  • Horde Webmail 1.1.2 und Horde Groupware 1.1.2 veröffentlicht.

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    Das Horde-Projekt hat heute die neue Version 1.1.2 des Horde-Webmail-Paketes und des Groupware-Paketes veröffentlicht. Das Paket Horde Webmail besteht neben einer Horde-Basisinstallation aus dem Webmailer IMP, dem Email-Filter Ingo, dem Kalender Kronolith, dem Adressbuch Turba, dem Task-Manager Nag und dem Notizblock Mnemo. Gegenüber Horde Webmail Version 1.1.1 wurde vor allem die Update-Fähigkeit des Setup-Scripts und der SQL-Treiber verbessert. Standardmäßig ist…

  • Horde Projekt gibt Blog-Software ‘thomas’ auf

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    Das Horde-Projekt hat angekündigt, die bisher auch auf dieser Website benutzte Blog-Software Horde Thomas nicht weiter als eigenständiges Programm zu entwickeln. Die Funktionalität von ‘thomas’ wird sukzessive in den weiter aktiv entwickelten News- und RSS-Reader Horde ‘jonah’ integriert.