MBOX-Line: From zoltans at geograph.co.za  Tue Aug 23 00:16:17 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP 4 extensions for Addressbook
Message-ID: <4E5353C1.1020008@geograph.co.za>

Hi All,
New to this list, and have had a brief read of Mark Crispin's "where to 
start", plus tried a few searches on "address book", "contacts" etc, but 
have not, to my surprise, come up with any past discussions on my thoughts.
It must be a 'keyword' error on my part, but I'm sure a few of you will 
correct me, as I really cannot believe that the idea of storing address 
books or contact lists on an IMAP server, has not yet been addressed.

So,
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.

I am driven mad by the fact that Thunderbird keeps my address book local 
on my PC.
I have set up an IMAP server in our office, and access my emails from 
various PCs in the office, plus from home and other places, and still 
also from my iPhone.
Yep, where is my address book?

I cannot be alone in this frustration.

Once IMAP has set out specifications for this mechanism, email clients 
can then, at their own choice and pace, choose to use it.
It makes far more sense to me to solve the problem at the common point 
of entry, than to have a million different email clients inventing this 
wheel individually.

I'd be grateful for pointers on past discussions, or better still, some 
support for getting this off the ground.

Kind regards,
Zoltan


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