Migration from Windows to Linux

[John Abreau]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:51, Fred wrote:

> What would be really "mega cool" is to see an addressbook protocol
> folded into the IMAP spec. Then your addressbook would be
> client-agnostic as well.
> 
> And while we're at it, bookmarks, calendars, ... !
> 
> Oh well -- do you think if I hammered out the RFCs for this the clients
> would come? :-)

LDAP already provides addressbook functionality, and it does a good job 
of it. I don't see a need to reinvent the wheel yet again. And I feel 
it would be a bad idea to add bloatware to IMAP. 

I'm not aware of any decent open-source calendar servers, and I suppose 
a case could be made for adding that to the IMAP spec. As I understand 
it, MS Exchange layers its calendar functionality on top of ordinary 
mail mesages by using a set of "magic" mail headers. 

As for bookmark management, I could imagine using LDAP or WebDAV to 
implement that, but I really don't see it fitting into the IMAP spec. 

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