Hi - My attempt to answer this is as much an attempt to gain clarity before I head down this same path - so am keen to be corrected here, but...
Providing a contact list is, is NOT a feature of any mail serving protocol, imap or pop (inspite what can apparently be extracted from courier with suitable wizardry and $)
It is a capability and legit use of an LDAP directory type server
This is how both ms exchange and open-Xchange and probably many other
collaboration/groupware servers essentially achieve this?
Using LDAP can also work _WITHOUT_ the whole groupware 'thing' in between - if the client can do ldap speak
Outlook can do ldap speak with various degrees of effectiveness depending on the version and the degree to which that version is standards compliant - there are work arounds to get outlook speaking to openLDAP correctly (I stumbled on to this as part of someone discussing this prob:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325314)
6)It should there for be possible outlook to get contacts from openLDAP -without purchasing any black magic, but probably with a little jigery pokery
Thanks for any coments and hope this gives some direction for WLG Glenn
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 18:41 -0600, Will L Givens wrote:
I asked some cats in IRC's #linuxhelp chan and they stated that it's not supported under regular IMAP, that I would need something like OpenExchange or Open-Xchange in order to get that portion to work.
After googling around, that's when I noticed there aren't that many free alternatives, the few that are, are so limited and restricted to i386 machines only [closed source unless you pay]. Will L G
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Charles Marcus Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:57 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP and Outlook XP Contacts
On 2006-02-18 16:19:58 -0600, DiskMan wrote:
I was wondering, does Dovecot's IMAP server hand Outlook XP's contact
Marcus Rueckert wrote: lists?
I tried to enter a contact on my IMAP server and received an error from Outlook stating that the Contacts formatting was too complex and thus couldn't be saved.
I went ahead and swung my box over to MailDir and scrapped Sendmail for Postfix [for maildir support], I was wondering, would this issue continue? In other words, by swinging over to MailDir, would Dovecot be able to handle Outlook's Contacts information? Will L G
contacts via imap? oO
Apparently 'tis possible. From the Courier-IMAP list:
"Good news, everyone!" -- Prof. H. Farnsworth
Insight Connector for Courier-IMAP is a commercial plugin for Microsoft OutlookT that allows native Outlook groupware capabilities using Courier-IMAP. Outlook users can perform tasks typically available only when using the Exchange server, including folder sharing. Some of the features include folder sharing, public folders sharing, appointments/tasks scheduling, real-time data management, calendar sharing and other collaborative tasks.
A trial version of Connector can be downloaded from http://courier.bynari.net. This software is supported by Bynari.