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MBOX-Line: From zoltans at geograph.co.za Tue Aug 23 00:16:17 2011
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:46 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP 4 extensions for Addressbook
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Message-ID: <4E5353C1.1020008@geograph.co.za>
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Hi All,
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New to this list, and have had a brief read of Mark Crispin's "where to
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start", plus tried a few searches on "address book", "contacts" etc, but
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have not, to my surprise, come up with any past discussions on my thoughts.
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It must be a 'keyword' error on my part, but I'm sure a few of you will
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correct me, as I really cannot believe that the idea of storing address
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books or contact lists on an IMAP server, has not yet been addressed.
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So,
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Can anyone tell me how to (or why to not ask) go about getting
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extensions to IMAP, so that address/contacts lists (and maybe even
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calendars/diaries/appointments), can be uniformly stored on an IMAP
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server, so that all the email clients can write extensions for
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themselves to be able to use this central storage. There could be a
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server wide one, plus personal ones per client.
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I am driven mad by the fact that Thunderbird keeps my address book local
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on my PC.
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I have set up an IMAP server in our office, and access my emails from
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various PCs in the office, plus from home and other places, and still
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also from my iPhone.
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Yep, where is my address book?
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I cannot be alone in this frustration.
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Once IMAP has set out specifications for this mechanism, email clients
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can then, at their own choice and pace, choose to use it.
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It makes far more sense to me to solve the problem at the common point
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of entry, than to have a million different email clients inventing this
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wheel individually.
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I'd be grateful for pointers on past discussions, or better still, some
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support for getting this off the ground.
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Kind regards,
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Zoltan
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Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031]
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Geograph (Pty) Ltd.
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P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa.
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65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945
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Western Cape, South Africa.
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