> From: Christoph Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > in my little home network, I use several mail clients on my 3 computers, > but would like to share all my data between them. In detail: > 1. I have a Linux machine, and Mozilla Mail (always the current > milestone build) is my preferred mail client. > 2. On my Windows desktop computer, I also use the Mozilla Mail client, > but sometimes would prefer Outlook. > 3. My Notebook (Win98) is a Pentium 120 with 32 MB RAM only - running > Mozilla is impossible. That's why I use Outlook Express 6 as mail client. > > The problem of sharing the mail folders and messages I solved by setting > up an IMAP server on the Linux machine. So I can access all messages > from every computer and every Mail client, and can see which messages > still have been replied and so on. There is no problem with this. > > But how can I share the address book data? > I guess the proper way for doing this would be to set up an LDAP server > on the Linux machine where the IMAP server is running. > AFAIK, Mozilla Mail can currently only READ data from an LDAP server, > but I would like to have the possibility also to ADD addresses to a > common shared address book. I want to have the addresses from the > "Collected Addresses" address book from Mozilla available on the other > machines, too, and I want to have the addresses from the Outlook Express > address book on the notebook to be available in Mozilla on the other > machines... > > 1. Is there anyone having a similar problem and has already a solution, > or is working on a solution for a common shared address book? > 2. Is it already known when Mozilla Mail will support WRITE access to a > LDAP server? Will it then be possible to share the adress data between > Mozilla and Outlook / Outlook Express via LDAP (in fact, i never set up > a LDAP server so far and don't know much about it) > > Thanks for any advice, > > Christoph > >
Christoph, Mozilla allows you to access both Outlook and Outlook Express Address Books directly. This has been available since 0.9.4. Please see bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83103 The catch at the moment is that you have to manually edit the prefs.js file to do this. The UI to enable this is not yet available. But I would encourage you to check it out. There is a description in the above bug plus a more detailed description at: http://abzilla.mozdev.org http://mozdev.org/ftp/pub/sun/SummaryPatchII.txt John.
