[pmmail-list] Any thought of developing....

[L.Willms]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:27:28 +1000, Rod... Whitworth wrote:

> 
> The existing address books are an abomination which condemn the product
> to either:
> A> solo users
> or
> B> corporate users where the One and Only Address Book (tm) is
> propagated to everybody's machine thereby wiping out any personal
> entries.

  The solution in my humble view is LDAP, which is already supported by 
PMMail, although in a quite rudimentary way. I doubt that PMMail supports 
LDAPv3, but it should be not too difficult to add, and LDAPv3 allows updates 
to the central address book by an LDAP client. 

  LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. 

  PMMail also has some support for LDIF (LDAP Interchange File), at least in 
the migration package for Netscape Communicator. 

  As to the integration with PMInews, I think the best solution is to have an 
export routine which writes the current address book format, and some REXX 
script which produce LDIF change files for changes from PMInews, which then 
can be imported by PMMail. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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