Lost addresses or an IMAP type address store question

[Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net>]

Hi all,

I needed to install Windows yesterday so zapped my Gentoo partition (which I was bored of anyway) and slung the Win98 CD in the drive and rebooted.  Over the years, I've done this so often on so many machines, its a real bore and I must admit, I didn't pay enough attention.  When I thought it was formatting the dos partition I had thoughtfully provided using cfdisk, it actually rewrote the partition table.

The full horror of what happened only occurred to me when it took about 30 seconds to format the first 2% of the HD.

I rebooted immediately hoping that it would have asked something along the lines of "Are you sure?" before so violent a step but it was too late.

So its reinstall time.  As I speak, the apt-get dist-upgrade of a tiny base system has completed and I've got galeon evolution, etc. merrily downloading.

The only important loss is my address book.  I keep data backed up, I use IMAP for email but I've lost all my addresses in Evolution. 

Is there a way to have addresses stored on the IMAP server along with messages so this kind of thing doesn't cost me my data?  

What I'm looking for is the ability to have one address book that works regardless of which machine I'm on, just like IMAP does for messages or in the Windows world, like Exchange does with its Address Books?  

Sorry to take so long to get to the point but does anyone have a suggested package or solution?

Thanks in advance,

Patrick


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