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.
Anyway, thanks for the answer!
-- Mark Edwards