Global address books tend not to be easily updatable, at least not from typical email clients. Usually they would be centrally administered, with people adding personal contacts to a local address book.Dear User, On my laptop I use Pine and Kmail to check my emails. I'm very happy using them. I use IMAP so that my emails are centralized and MUA independent. I was thinking of a similar solution for my addressbook. Is there some lightweight software which could act as a centralized addressbook repository and serve these kind of MUA's ?
Bearing that in mind, a quick-and-dirty way is a web page of MailTo: entries on something like thttpd if you're not already running a web server. To make it updatable from a web browser, rather than hand-editing the file, you'll need a few perl CGI scripts or equivalent. There may well be something of this sort available.
I've gone for a mixture, with web page/perl access to an LDAP server. I'm not really willing to publish the scripts, as they are still a bit flaky, and only then on Woody as I can't seem to get OpenLDAP to work on Sarge.
-- Joe