Address Book?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Paul,

"Webb, Paul" <pwebb at webbenabled.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have some suggestions for enhancements to the address book. Please feel free to laugh heartily at my suggestions.
>
> I love the idea of a common address book for all of my users, and I love the fact that I can set up an LDAP lookup in their email client (currently Thunderbird, but may
> become Outlook someday). But I'm running into a few things that don't appear to be there that I'd love to be considered for future versions of Kolab.
>
> I would very much appreciate the following enhancements/changes... and it's possible they exist already and I just don't know about it yet. If that's the case, let me know
> and I'll shut up! :o)
>
> Oh, and let me say this: PLEASE don't interpret any of these requests as being anything but that -- requests. I *love* the Kolab project and would love to see it get better,
> which is why I'm taking the time to post these.
>
>   • I'd love for the address book to have an "import" feature available, so I can take the 300+ contacts we already have and import them in. Yes, I know I can use sync-kolab
>     and dump them into a shared contact folder for everyone, but there's no current means to do an LDAP lookup on the data in a shared IMAP folder, and we've found that
>     sync-kolab is just too experimental and unstable for use with 50+ users. For this reason, the address book becomes the means of choice. And there's no nice way to import
>     contacts in without going through LDAP schema hell trying to get the schemas to match. We're trying to go down that road now. So, an import function would be handy.
>     Preferably from something universal like a Comma Seperated Value file.

You might be able to do that using Turba, the Horde address
manager. It has nice import features though it is usually not allowed
to write to the LDAP tree. That is a restriction you might be able to
remove for such an initial import.

Cheers,

Gunnar


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