Re: centralized location for contacts
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 09:36 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote:
> 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 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.
>
> It seems that very few applications implement acap. I can't find an
> acap server anywhere, either... Although it sounds like the perfect
> solution!
I noticed while Googling something else, ISMP, which seems to be the
same thing as ACAP, but there isn't really anything more out there about
it than ACAP anyway...
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