On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
On an aside, why do all these clients only support read-access to
LDAP? Seems like it would really great to be able to use LDAP in
place of a local address book in all of your clients, but that's
not a possibility if you can't write to it.I don't get why it is only considered to be useful for reading
from. Something in the design of it?Lightweight Directory Access Protocol was designed to be a
"lightweight directory access protocol". :) That is, it is
highly optimized for many reads, few writes. Contact information
should not change frequently. If you want to do a lot of writes,
you use a database.Right, well it would be great if ANY mail client supported a
standard protocol for networking address books. It just seems
absurd that this hasn't been covered yet.
I think that LDAP *is* a standard for "networking address books".
But that doesn't mean that your webmail interface is the right place
to administer it. ;-)
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