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-Akonadi
-========
-
-What is Akonadi?
-------------------
-Akonadi is a PIM layer, which provides an asynchronous API to access all kind
-of PIM data (e.g. mails, contacts, events, todos etc.).
-
-It consists of several processes (generally called the Akonadi server) and a
-library (called client library) which encapsulates the communication
-between the client and the server.
-
-This directory contains the sources of the Akonadi server and all the infrastructure
-that is needed to build the client libraries and the application which want to make
-use of Akonadi.
-
-Structure
-----------
-
-  * cmake/
-      Contains the cmake checks that are needed to build the server.
-
-  * interfaces/
-      Contains the dbus interface descriptions that are used by the
-      client library to control the Akonadi server or request status
-      information.
-
-  * libs/
-      Contains the sources of a private library which provides utils
-      that are used by both, the Akonadi server and the client library.
-
-  * server/
-
-
-
-See INSTALL for installation instructions.
-
-See Mainpage.dox for more information.
-
-See libakonadi.xmi for UML documentation generated with Umbrello.
-