Re: centralized location for contacts
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!
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