Scott Otterson wrote:Is there a document describing this format? If there is none, I would recommend to write a quick draft on this first.
Can address books be stored and shared in IMAP space in the same way
as messages? I'm on a different OS or client at every location where
I check mail so IMAP email is very handy.
Some time ago I wrote a small program to store address books on an IMAP server, but it's not yet released to the public ;-) And it's not a "real" application, only some PHP scripts - to add/edit contacts you need a web browser...
Here is a short description of the format I used:
Each message in the addressbook folder is one contact. The message/contact has two parts, a plaintext (human readable) part and a vCard attachment. The Subject: header is the contacts display name, the From: header its primary eMail address. So it's easy to access and read the address book folder with any IMAP client. You can sort, search, thread, copy the contacts like real mail messages. And it's possible to import/export the vCard attachments.
If someone is interested, I can continue the development in the next
days or weeks...
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