MBOX-Line: From robm at fastmail.fm  Tue Aug 23 19:54:08 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Robert Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP 4 extensions for Addressbook
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> Can anyone tell me how to (or why to not ask) go about getting 
> extensions to IMAP, so that address/contacts lists (and maybe even 
> calendars/diaries/appointments), can be uniformly stored on an IMAP 
> server, so that all the email clients can write extensions for 
> themselves to be able to use this central storage. There could be a 
> server wide one, plus personal ones per client.

One option that's been around for a while but never quite caught on as
much as I'd hoped...

http://wiki.kolab.org/Kolab_Format_Intro
http://wiki.kolab.org/Clients_for_Kolab2

I like that in the IMAP model the server is authoritative and
emails/UIDs unchangeable which reduces some of the syncing/caching
problem. However it introduces it's own issues, in that syncing changes
to an item from two different sources a mess if it's not done online,
but that's less and less of an issue these days.

Rob

