[kdepim-users] KAddressbook and a DB Backend

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 28 March 2008, Christian Frommeyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after having trouble lately with too long processing times for
> storing a simple change in a stored address I decided to store my
> addresses (380 addresses taking 1.5 MB) in a database mostly for
> performance reasons, but as well to share the information with my
> wife. My first Idea was to use ldap as Backend. This prooved to be a
> bit tricky but I manged to set up ldap and Kontact to work together.
> Just to find out that kontact cannot save all data to ldap which
> result in data loss (without warning). As the major reason to use
> kaddressbook is the flexibility to handle addresses with more
> post/email-addresses/phone numbers/etc its not an option to use just
> a subset.
>
> Now I'm searching for a diffrent way to bring all the data from
> kontact to a database. I read a discussion from 2004 about a possible
> mysql interface, but it looks like this was never
> implemented/released. Has someone heard of s.th. the like or more
> information how i could knitt an interface myself?

The answer/solution is Akonadi (http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/).


Regards,
Ingo
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