On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:15PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I would like to be able to store all my contacts in a specific location > > in my home directory that would be accessible by Evolution, Icedove, and > > mutt. Does anyone know of a good way to do this? I've tried using > > slapd for a LDAP server, but this seems like overkill and has yet to > > work right anyway (I always get errors). > > > > I have set up a Dovecot IMAP server and Postfix to use ~/.Maildir; it > > works well. Now I can access mail from different mail clients; I'd just > > like to do the same with my contacts. > > According to http://www.imap.org/about/whatisIMAP.html > > There is a companion protocol to IMAP, developed at Carnegie Mellon > University. It is called the "Application Configuration Access > Protocol", or ACAP, and provides the same location independent > access to configuration files, address books, bookmark lists, etc, > that IMAP offers for mailboxes. > > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/acap/
This page no longer exists, and Google doesn't list it, so I can't see Google's cache. > I would start there. 'apt-cache search acap' does not return anything > for etch :-( It seems that very few applications implement acap. I can't find an acap server anywhere, either... Although it sounds like the perfect solution! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
