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IMAP and Maildir

Posted Jun 17, 2004 7:29 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: IMAP and Maildir by rfunk
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to mail clients: introduction

For more information/flames on the mh mailbox format:
http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/formats.txt.html

The format itself is still supported by many programs. Notably the c-client library used by uw-imapd, pine and balsa. Another mailer is kmail.

BTW: imap is great for saving mail, but what about an addressbook? is ldap convinient enough?

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Addressbook

Posted Jun 17, 2004 15:28 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

BTW: imap is great for saving mail, but what about an addressbook? is ldap convinient enough?

LDAP is a pain to set up, so I don't consider it convenient.

I think there's a way to store addressbook info in IMAP, but I haven't figure it out yet.

Addressbook

Posted Jun 17, 2004 21:12 UTC (Thu) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157) [Link]

Like you, I haven't got around to setting up LDAP because it seems too
much of a pain. Most people around here use kaddressbook with fish:// to
give easy remote access from anywhere. It seems to work pretty well.

Corrin

fish:// addressbook

Posted Jun 18, 2004 17:26 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

When I use fish:// or sftp:// with kaddressbook (KDE 3.1), it lets me do
it but warns about multiple simultaneous access to remote addressbook
files being bad. I haven't had a chance to check whether that's changed
in KDE 3.2.

Address books and other prefs via IMAP

Posted Jun 22, 2004 13:34 UTC (Tue) by utoddl (subscriber, #1232) [Link]

IMAP is just for mail access. It isn't designed to do address books and store other preferences by itself. What your're looking for is IMSP. Quoting the abstract:

The Internet Message Support Protocol (IMSP) is designed to support the provision of mail in a medium to large scale operation. It is intended to be used as a companion to the IMAP4 protocol [IMAP4], providing services which are either outside the scope of mail access or which pertain to environments which must run more than one IMAP4 server in the same mail domain. The services that IMSP provides are extended mailbox management, configuration options, and address books.

IMSP was superceeded by ACAP in the mid to late '90s. There's a Cyrusoft Guide to IMSP and ACAP that you may want to look at.