[NBLUG/talk] Address book sharing

[Omar Eljumaily]

Does anybody have any tips on apps/servers for email address book 
sharing across clients?  I've looked at this and nothing sounds very 
exciting.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books

In the old days people used to have just one email client which stored 
their address books.  Nowadays the requirements have greatly increased.  
These all seem to have to share the same (or similar) address books now:

1. Different desktop clients like Thunderbird and Outlook.
2. Mobile and tablet clients
3. Web based clients
4. Central company wide CRM data

I think the idea of a single server that all clients can access 
transparently is not reasonable.  It's probably a matter of a simple 
server/data store somewhere which most clients can access, and for the 
ones that can't the data can be pushed.  That's what I'm thinking.

The embedded IMAP store seems reasonable because at least you'll have 
the data if you don't have the mechanisms to use it transparently.

Thanks,

Omar