Gary Brown <[email protected]> writes: > Many thanks to all of you for the suggestions and advice that led me to a > solution. It was a great day for learning.
Congrats! > Today: an IMAP Server > Tomorrow: Shared Contacts (probably using LDAP), maybe I've had the same "tomorrow" step for quite a while, now. Evolution was quite great about auto-creating address book entries. Thunderbird seems good, but I notice it misses some. Gnus can integrate with the Big Brother DataBase (BBDB), and maybe there's even a single line I could add to my .emacs to make them both work together with the same efficiacy as Evolution, but I've not found it. On top of that, I don't have a good solution that bridges the subset of information in my Blackberry (mostly phone numbers, obviously) and my ~/documents/address-book text file (ad hoc format, mostly extended family addresses and history), too. :/ The LDAP solutions look like they could work quite well, but maybe a fair bit more complex than they need to be because of the open-ended nature of LDAP schema. I mean, LDAP is basically just a database, albeit with some notion of predefined schemata for particular application domains such as this. Here's some links I've retained from my aborted efforts; maybe they'll be useful to you: Generic setup: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html?page=2 Evolution: http://feldt.com/work/projects/openLDAP/ Thunderbird: http://blogs.sun.com/watt/entry/evolution_thunderbird_and_my_hate -> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/ldap.html Gnus: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/EUDC If you figure it out, please do report back. :) Happy New Year… -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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