Re: [courier-users] Standard for [shared] remote addressbook using imap

[Bill Taroli]

Well, I've taken pains to ensure that as I add features to my environment that I can also maintain a choice of client setup. Mind you, for email, it's really IMAP that makes this possible. But I haven't seen any kind of slam dunk for PIM functions. I see it as an advantage that I don't have to depend on this or that client in order to access my email, for example; I use any of Thunderbird, Mozilla, web, phone (EmailViewer on Nokia 6820).

As for address books, I'm soon looking to make the foray into LDAP, but there seem to be as many approaches as their are grains of sand in a beach. It would be nice if anyone knew of a best practices list that people could share their experiences with their own implementations.

Scott wrote:

All of those either suffer from:

1. Users can't write/make changes to the LDAP directory
2. Made for Outlook
3. Strictly web based

What I want is something that is platform independent like iCal. Any server can host a directory (secure or otherwise with read/write perms) where users can store their contact dbs. This works great with mozilla's calendar and webDAV right now. I think a great solution would be something along those lines, but with contacts dbs.

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