Re: centralized addressbook musing

[dan radom <dan@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Neil Watson (mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I've been musing about a centralized address book.  Wouldn't it be nice
> if you had one address book that you access from multiple locations (say
> work and home)?
> 
> Being a big fan of website database applications I thought about a mysql
> address book with a webpage front end.  With proper security you could
> access it from any web browser.
> 
> This pleased me but, then I thought.  How can I add this to my favourite
> mail client?  How could I query addresses remotely using Mutt?
> 

I do.  I use LDAP for this along with the mutt_ldap_query-3.0.pl script
written by Marc de Courville.

LDAP isn't that difficult to get going.