[kdepim-users] How to merge addressbooks

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sun Jan 18 18:52:22 GMT 2009


On Sunday 18 January 2009, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009 12:01:07 Werner Joss wrote:
> > a better solution is for sure to use kmail's ability to store
> > addresses in imap folders. this allows you to set up an IMAP server
> > and use that as a central address storage, clients which do not
> > always have access to it (e.g. laptops) can be configured to use
> > DIMAP, which holds local copies and syncs evtl. changes back
> > automatically when online again.
>
> I stopped trying to figure out how to use dovecot for local IMAP once
> gmail started providing an out of the box alternative.  Has anyone
> figured out how to use this functionality that Werner points out with
> gmail as your IMAP server/contacts repository?

The last time I tried to set it up with my gmail account I failed. This 
might be due to missing features in gmail's IMAP implementation, but I 
didn't have a closer look at why it fails.

YMMV


Regards,
Ingo
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