> There is some system (on freshmeat?) that has a special folder in IMAP > for storing calendar events. The program uses the IMAP defined protocol > though.
http://www.kolab.org/documentation.html It's a reasonably interesting idea. Basically use a sort of folder=table and email=row database mapping to store the data. Ok more email = "structured XML blob of data", but the overall concept is that the IMAP server acts as a centralised store of information that multiple clients can sync from. Actually a few nice things about this approach: 1. You reuse an existing protocol and servers rather than creating a bunch of new ones 2. Because IMAP is designed so the server is authoriative and you have long term connections, you can avoid many of the sync issues that "irregular sync" systems end up dealing with 3. Emails are immutable, so changing anything is a "delete + upload new" action, so again, other clients can easily detect when changes have occured on the server I really wish the Bynari and Toltec Outlook plugins were just a bit more stable and sane though... Rob ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
