I check mail both from the university and from home and one major problem is to sync the two address books at lab and at home. I noticed pine has an interesting feature, by which the address book is synced using imap. basically the address book is cached locally and also stored in an imap folder. Using IMAP_STATUS, the local copy is refreshed if need be. Then the local copy is used.
The pine approach is clearly inefficient (you need to download the entire addr book even if one entry changes). My idea was to copy what Outlook does with the Contacts folder. Each contact is stored in a special folder as a message. the rest of IMAP syncing things will be automagically and this is much more efficient than pine's approach. my guess is that we will have to write a new address book backend. I was wondering if any one is intersted in implementing this feature or help me out with it. any comments appreciated, also where do i look in the source?? ashwin
