Hello, The idea about an RFC for groupware folders on an imap server isn't new. In fact there are different groupware servers around that use imap for storing vCards and vCalendar data. (Kroupware, Insight etc).
Before starting a new RFC I would recommend to look at the following links: Thread (RFC IMAP groupware folders) http://lists.kde.org/?t=105108790000001&r=1&w=2 Architecture paper kolab server http://www.kroupware.org/architecture-1.1/index.html Regards, Marc Groot Koerkamp Holger Mauermann said: > Vladimir A. Butenko wrote: >> The current versions of CommuniGate Pro store address books as vCards, >> you >> can see how it's done there > > I just take a look at it. > >> A "recommendation" RFC that specifies what should be placed in the >> Subject: >> and other headers would be good, because we (and others) store the >> primary >> E-mail in the To: header, not in From: > > ok, let us begin ;-) > > The Subject: should be set to the vCard FN type. > > IMHO it is better to use From: for the primary mail address, because it > is more compatible with mail software which doesn't support this type of > address book. Most of them show only subject, from and date in the > message list. It is easy to write a new message - you only need to > "Reply" to an address book entry. And if there is no From: header at > all, it is not a valid RFC 822 message. So I think the From: should be > set to the first EMAIL;INTERNET[;PREF] type. > > I see that CommuniGate Pro only stores the vCard in the message. But it > could be more helpful if there is also a human readable part with the > contact information, no matter if it's plain text or a nice coloured > HTML table. > >> A much more important task - IMHO - is to create an RFC about storing >> "Contact Group" information. Old-time players as Lotus and Microsoft did >> not >> address this issue at all, so there is no even a de-facto standard. We >> use >> some vCard-like format for Groups > > What about adding a References: header to the group members? Then you may > even use the IMAP THREAD extension to display the groups ;-) > > > Holger > > >
