MBOX-Line: From helga.mayer at uni-hohenheim.de  Tue Aug 23 02:20:15 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Helga Mayer <helga.mayer@uni-hohenheim.de>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP 4 extensions for Addressbook
In-Reply-To: <4E5353C1.1020008@geograph.co.za>
References: <4E5353C1.1020008@geograph.co.za>
Message-ID: <20110823112015.176047jadao2tej3@webmail.uni-hohenheim.de>

Quoting Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@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.

Maybe you are looking for this one:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5464
As far as I know cyrus is the only imap server using these features.
There are attempts however to implement it in dovecot.

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-June/059747.html

Regards
Helga





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