[Alpine-info] Sharing an address book

[Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik]

:2012-02-05T12:44:Martin Gross:



> I would like to create an address book which the colleagues of my work

> team and I could use from different computers on the network, but I am

> not sure what it the best way to do this, since I don't really

> understand how to manage remote address books.  As I don't see how to

> put an address book in a specific path, it seems to me any address book

> most be in "Home" to be accessed.  If this is true, may be the easiest

> would be to create a local address book, say "team3_addrbook", and then

> link it to a shared folder on the net, from where others could relink it

> to their "HOME's".  But there must be a better way.  Some ideas?  All

> users should be able to write the address book.


A remote address book in alpine is nothing more than an IMAP folder with
specific messages in them(one address book is one folder).

You can easily share this with others using IMAP shared folders.

With for example dovecot as the IMAP server you could do this by simply
symlinking your address book folder to all the others you want to have
them access. Or use some other form of shared IMAP folders.

Regards
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