[imp] Mail clients and contact database lock-in

[Jan Schneider]

And then there is SyncML. Not quite the same like accessing the  
address book directly with the client, but a bridge.

Zitat von Graeme Wood <Graeme.Wood at ed.ac.uk>:

>
> ACAP and IMSP were supposed to provide this kind of functionality. They
> were never taken up and the protocols are now moribund and no clients
> support them.
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Jaap Winius wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> For the past six years I've been using IMP as my main mail client.
>> While others prefer to use dedicated GUI mail clients instead, I love
>> the fact that my client is the same everywhere and I'm never without
>> my complete and up to date contact list.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I have more than a few users who have ended up using a
>> dedicated GUI mail client anyway. I can't help imagining, though, that
>> they might have remained a little more interested in IMP/Horde if they
>> could at least have continued to access -- or better yet, maintain --
>> their Turba contact list from within their favorite mail client. My
>> impression is that users who were once freed by IMAP/POP to use almost
>> any mail client they wanted, still end up using only one in the end
>> because of contact database lock-in. In the same way, even we IMP
>> users are, to a lesser degree, locked into our Horde databases where
>> the Turba contact information is stored.
>>
>> I suppose it is possible to use LDAP to make Turba contact information
>> available elsewhere, but I hear that of the mail clients that do
>> include LDAP support, this is limited to email address lookup only. I
>> don't believe that implementing this would help very much to change
>> any minds.
>>
>> Has the idea of making Turba contact information more available ever
>> been given any serious consideration? Is there, perhaps, a Thunderbird
>> plug-in that I haven't heard of yet? It would be interesting to hear
>> what other people have to say about this subject.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jaap
>>
>
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Jan.

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