How do you keep your online address-book?

[Anthony Joseph Messina]

On Sunday 06 September 2009 08:39:47 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What do people recommend for keeping a list of contacts
> on the computer?
> I presently use OpenLDAP, but I'm not completely happy with it.

I use 389 DS LDAP, formerly the Fedora Directory Server (http://port389.org) 
with eGroupWare (http://egroupware.org) as a web & SyncML frontend.

> I think my main requirements are:
>
> 1. It must be held on one computer, and be accessible from others.

server? check.

> 2. There should be a simple GUI program to add contacts.

eGroupWare via any computer that has access to the host

> 3. It should be possible to add contacts to and from mobile phones.

eGroupWare via SyncML

> 4. It should be reasonably compatible with KMail and other KDE
> applications.

I use KDE now with this setup

> 5. It should be reasonably compatible with Windows XP.

LDAP lookups from thunderbird or whatever app you want OR from eGroupWare

> 6. It should be flexible, allowing additional fields to be added later.

possible, but probably a little involved.

> I'm interested to know what the most popular method
> of keeping an address-book online under Fedora.

this is not the simplest way, by far.  however, it is solid, flexible, 
scalable and with LDAP, redundancy is a breeze.

-- 
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