On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:22:39AM -0500, Patrice Levesque wrote:
So, does everyone here use abook, or nothing, or just have all their
E-Mail addresses in mutt aliases, or what? Any suggestions would be
very welcome.
If I found something that could synchronize my (any) phone as well
then I'd be *very* happy! :-)
My current setup does just that.
- OpenLDAP acts as the addressbook container;
- Horde's Turba acts as a web-based data entry frontend;
- Horde's Turba can also deal with phone two-way synchronization
mechanism (via ActiveSync), if you use Horde ≥ 4 and Turba ≥ 3.
I've often toyed with Horde but have never actually really got into it,
maybe I should revisit it.
The phone sync setup can easily accomodate calendars as well if you add
Horde's Kronolith. You may also handle mail via Horde's Imp as a
web-based plan B (I like a shell environment on my cellphone but I
understand it's not everyone's taste, especially for those without a
physical keyboard; native smartphone mail apps often suck) and you could
even deal with mail filters (think procmail or sieve) using Horde's
Ingo. My mail is stored in IMAP, don't know about your setup, so YMMV.
Turba works well enough (though clumsily) in a text-based browser like
ELinks if you want to add contacts without leaving the comfort of your
shell.
(No, this is not a Horde selling pitch! I'm getting back to the subject
at hand, now!)
Mutt accesses OpenLDAP via a thin shell script; my OpenLDAP server is
located thousands of miles away and the Ctrl-T completion seldom takes
more than 2 seconds.
Of course, all that may seem like overhead just to get e-mail address
completion, but I like to think of it the other way around; mutt fits in
*nicely* in that ecosystem ;)
Yes, that's the way round I am really. I want a good/comfortable
contacts manager for lots of reasons other than using it with mutt,
being able to extract E-Mail addresses to mutt is just a bonus.
--
Chris Green
