[kdepim-users] pine-like remote addressbook

[Werner Joss]

> Hi,
> I have been always using pine as my email client. The reason for not
> switching
> over to better-looking email clients such as thunderbird
> or kmail was that pine offered the possibility to store an addressbook
> within
> the mail folders, on the remote mail server. So it didn't
> matter, from which client machine I was accessing my email, I had always
> access to the central addressbook.
> Is it also possible in kmail?

yes.
what you need is:
- a mail server capable of imap protocol
- configure a disconnected imap account in kmail, then use this as
contacts storage for kontact.

> Or is it planned? I would be most happy if
> the
> same format that pine uses (addressbook stored in the form
> of an email) would also be supported, because in this case I could share
> the
> addressbook between kmail (used from my notebook), and pine
> (when my notebook is not there, so I ssh to the mailserver, and fire up
> pine)

remote address data for kontact is stored as .vcf files, maybe pine can
use this too ?

werner
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