[NBLUG/talk] Address book sharing

Lucas Dohring lucasd at sonic.net
Fri Jan 16 13:26:09 PST 2015


Omar,

You should look into CardDAV.
Something like http://radicale.org/ may be of use.

Lucas

On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 06:32 +0000, Sujit Karataparambil wrote:
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> >On Thursday, 15 January 2015, 1:02, Omar Eljumaily <omar at omnicode.com> wrote:
> >Thanks Robert.  I struggle with the idea of LDAP.  Personally I think 
> >it's extremely convoluted and most of what it's used for could be better 
> 
> >done with SQL or other database technologies.  However, it's a fairly
> 
> If you read the document that I shared you could create new address books.
> By configuring the application. Also using SQL or other database technologies
> can have a lot of detrimental effects like data issues/inherent security issue
> and maintainability across system will be very difficult.
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> >widely used standard for a lot of applications.  Do you go with the 
> >standard and get left behind or do you trudge forward and get beat up 
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> >trying new things?
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> I am one for standards, they are successful, also one can look at LDAP for support
> with any application without having to build from scratch.
> 
> >Omar
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> On 1/14/2015 11:12 AM, Robert P. Thille wrote:
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> > Does anybody know if LDAP works properly in Outlook?  I think it's originally an MS protocol, so it probably should work.
> > LDAP isn't originally an MS protocol.  IIRC, it was a university project as a lightweight alternative to some ISO standard (X.500?).
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Omar
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> >> On 1/8/2015 3:54 AM, Sujit Karataparambil wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 21:44, Omar Eljumaily <omar at omnicode.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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
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> >>> http://www.sudleyplace.com/LDAP/index.en.html
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