MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Tue Aug 23 08:24:08 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP 4 extensions for Addressbook
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On 23.8.2011, at 12.20, Helga Mayer wrote:

> 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.

I'm sure it has been discussed in several mailing lists before. There are also other IMAP mailing lists: imapext, morg, lemonade and imap5. The only discussion I remember was a very recent one in imap5 list: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/imap5/current/maillist.html starting from last July.

> Maybe you are looking for this one:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5464

I'm not sure how helpful METADATA is with implementing an address book.. In any case it's still not a standard for an address book, just an arbitrary key=value database.

I guess CardDAV would be the preferred solution.
