Re: combo GUI/text mail client

[Pann McCuaig <pann@ourmanpann.com>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 13:16, Brandon High wrote:
> Joseph Dane wrote:
> >  * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either
> >    get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to
> >    offer them
> 
> Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it and use OpenLDAP 
> to store address books - most modern mail clients can do lookups against 
> LDAP. I'm not this brave/foolish, and I don't need to be. I have a small 
> address book.

Once you've done it it's not that hard. I've posted a _very_ terse
mini-HowTo for doing this with Debian potato at

http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ldap.html

Luck,
Pann
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