Hi,
Could this not be resolved cleanly and made a little more general
purpose in the next revision of imap.
The SELECT could have a TYPE response
TYPE = MAILSTORE | ICARD | ICAL | DOCUMENT
Thus
SELECT addressbooks/fred
Could reply with
* [TYPE ICARD]
* [EXISTS 10]
......
Each item in the store has an additional header field
MODIFIEDDATE which is similar to INTERNALDATE but return the date
modified. A plain old mailstore would return the INTERNALDATE as the
file is not modifiable. This is also searchable so you can simply find
the messages modified since the last check.
You then need a modify command
MODIFY id {size} data
And
UID MODIFY uid {size} data
This replaces the message with a new message.
A minimal header for none message (MAILSTORE) types should be included
in the RFC as something like
FROM, TO, Subject, Date, content-type
Finally the document type should allow access to a OS folder store where
any old document can be stored
The document would be presented as a mime message. E.g.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: image/jpeg ; name="logo.jpg"
Content-disposition: attachment; filename="logo.jpg"
What is the general feeling of the community for adding these extra
features which would make IMAP into a groupware protocol. I think that
it is pointless us all trying our own flavours of IMAP to try to get the
clients to work. A specification would solve this, or, should we start a
new protocol specifically designed for groupware.
Regards
Richard Bang
Floosietek Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.floosietek.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Holger Mauermann
> Sent: 11 October 2003 10:45
> To: Vladimir A. Butenko
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ubeblock-lowhit] Re: address books
>
>
> Vladimir A. Butenko wrote:
> >> But it could be more helpful if there is also a human readable part
> >> with the contact information, no matter if it's plain text or a
> >> nice coloured HTML table.
> >
> > Lotus Notes does that. Do you really think it's needed? If I want to
> > store contacts and other things, I want groupware capabilities. And
> > if I want groupware capabilities, I need a groupware client - or, at
> > least, a client that supports vCard.
>
> I don't need groupware capabilities. All what I want (and other small
> business and home users) is a *simple* way to access my address book
> with different mail clients from different locations. It's fine if the
> client can handle this format, but if not I still must be able to read
> the data with *any* client.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if you can store the address book on the ISPs IMAP
> server and then access it even from an Internet cafe if you are on
> travel? Or share it between Mozilla and Outlook Express...
>
> Holger
>
>
