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Re: XCmail: Share addressbooks between different systems (draft to discuss)

Jürgen Schmitz
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:33:14 -0800

Hm, maybe your are right - simply one menu entry to send the book and some 
filter that will give a dialog asking whether to import the book.

But my problem is to remember this cases when to send the book.... ;-)

Jürgen

jbb wrote:

> Dear Jurgen,
> 
>     This is an e-mail program, is it not? What's wrong with e-mailing
> the address book home? Write a function that does that and it becomes a
> killer app for those incapable of handling the details.
> 
>     Shalom,
> 
>     John B. Brown.
>     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:10:55 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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>>---Reply to mail from jbb about XCmail: Share addressbooks between different
>>systems (draft to discuss)
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>>>Dear Folks,
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>>>    Is disc space so dear that you can not use rdist to solve the
>>>problem of a common address book for varied users? Why do it the hard
>>>way? Besides, there's us out here who want a PRIVATE address book.
>>>Don't screw up a good thing with a bad case of featuritis.
>>>
>>>
>>Maybe that's a solution for David's problem. However, I'm talking about
>>some kind of roaming, so sharing the addressbook between your home and the
>>office or university - or simply different systems in your company - like
>>netscape 4's roaming. And in this case most don't have the possibility to
>>use rdist or rsync or whatever because of firewalls and dialin accounts.
>>
>>In the survey many people told that they use different machines and have
>>to share their addressbook (or don't because of this problems).
>>
>>
>>Jürgen
>>
>>(und wie immer keine Kalorien verbraucht, aber 2 Euro...)
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