On Aug 11, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
On an aside, why do all these clients only support read-access to
LDAP? Seems like it would really great to be able to use LDAP in
place of a local address book in all of your clients, but that's
not a possibility if you can't write to it.
I don't get why it is only considered to be useful for reading
from. Something in the design of it?
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol was designed to be a
"lightweight directory access protocol". :) That is, it is highly
optimized for many reads, few writes. Contact information should
not change frequently. If you want to do a lot of writes, you use
a database.
Right, well it would be great if ANY mail client supported a standard
protocol for networking address books. It just seems absurd that
this hasn't been covered yet.
Anyway, thanks for the answer!
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Mark Edwards
