On Sunday 06 September 2009 08:39:47 Timothy Murphy wrote: > What do people recommend for keeping a list of contacts > on the computer? > I presently use OpenLDAP, but I'm not completely happy with it.
I use 389 DS LDAP, formerly the Fedora Directory Server (http://port389.org) with eGroupWare (http://egroupware.org) as a web & SyncML frontend. > I think my main requirements are: > > 1. It must be held on one computer, and be accessible from others. server? check. > 2. There should be a simple GUI program to add contacts. eGroupWare via any computer that has access to the host > 3. It should be possible to add contacts to and from mobile phones. eGroupWare via SyncML > 4. It should be reasonably compatible with KMail and other KDE > applications. I use KDE now with this setup > 5. It should be reasonably compatible with Windows XP. LDAP lookups from thunderbird or whatever app you want OR from eGroupWare > 6. It should be flexible, allowing additional fields to be added later. possible, but probably a little involved. > I'm interested to know what the most popular method > of keeping an address-book online under Fedora. this is not the simplest way, by far. however, it is solid, flexible, scalable and with LDAP, redundancy is a breeze. -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E
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