[pmmail-list] More on PMINews & PMMail & OS/2

[Rod... Whitworth]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:24:52 +1000 (EST), John Angelico wrote:

>Uh, Rod are there not facilities for including personal address books
>within the framework of PMMail, either as groups or as other address books?
Not really - it only looks that way.
You can create a number of "books" but all the entries are in a single
file and a field in each record defines the book number in which the
record is displayed

>Yes, the concept of a common address book aka "OOAB" as you state, is also
>touted by Lotus and MS as central repositories or corporate directories and
>considered by them A Good Thing (tm others). But there are ways to do
>things in between.

Yes and it really is not too hard. The existing schema could be used
but there would be the existing AB on each client machine and a
"Master" on a shared directory somewhere on the LAN.
Adding/deleting/altering only allowed for someone logged in with
appropriate permission.

As long as the client can find both for read access it would be fine.

There needs to be some cleanup of the database management of the books
which is virtually nonexistent at present. e.g. aliases really need to
be unique.

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