managing address book and pictures - Dev

12 Jan 2007

      Adress book
webmail is nice, but with addressbook syncing, it's better.
For thunderbird user, waiting for 2.0 releases before starting coding is
a good idea, in this version, adressBook is a true sqlite db.
For mac user, the adressBook api is easy to access with scripting (like
pyobjc), and the iSync api seems to be usable.
For that, roundcube should expose some distant API. Is there any choice
for that, actually?
JSON seems easy and simple.
With a json distant API, it will be easy to update the distant adress book.
Pictures
Mail.app can display picture in mail header, like avatar.
It's easy to implement such features.

There's an old protocol, used by

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mailpictures/

Gravatar (http://www.gravatar.com/) is the easiest way to match

picture and mail adress

With adressbook sync, you can upload your picture.

I use it with a dirty hack, is it usefull enough to make it cleaner and
submit a patch?