How do you keep your online address-book?

[Timothy Murphy]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 14:39 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I presently use OpenLDAP, but I'm not completely happy with it.
> 
> Perhaps if you explained why you aren't happy with it, people might have
> suggestions about improving it.

I find LDAP a little heavy anyway -
I have the impression of something intended for SysAdmins of large systems,
rather than a home network user like me.
And the documentation is very bad.
But concretely, my main complaint from my list would be:

2. There should be a simple GUI program to add contacts.

I'd really like something like phpMyAdmin with MySQL,
though even that is somewhat cumbersome.

Fairly high on my list of wishes would also be:

3. It should be possible to add contacts to and from mobile phones.

Some sort of translator to/from vCard and similar

5. It should be reasonably compatible with Windows XP.

I haven't really looked into this.
Is it reasonably easy to set up an Outlook distribution list
from an LDAP address-book?

6. It should be flexible, allowing additional fields to be added later.

Again, I'm not sure if this is possible with OpenLDAP,
as it is eg with MySQL.



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