Subject: any way to use my addressbook on my IMAPd server from remote?

From: [email-masked] (Brian L. Heess)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:24:08 -0400

I have my server at the office running imapd, and can read my mail, write
mail, open the folders I have on my server and all, but have not been
able to figure out a way to use my addressbook which is on my server
(where I run pine locally, normally).

I have tried variations of how I got it to use the server for the
folders like {pimpf.commline.com}mail/addressbook and the like (I
moved my addressbook from ~/.addressbook).  That almost worked but
I get an error of [ Permission Denied ].

Is this possible?  If not, who might I put a feature request in to?

It seems that this would be KEY to keeping a mailbox in one place,
like on the server, at least one of the purposes of IMAP, right?

Maybe I have just totally missed something?

Cheers and thanks for any help!

-Brian
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:42:47 -0700 (PDT)

Brian,
This feature is highly sought-after by all of us!

Remote access to personal configuration data and address books is outside
the scope of what IMAP does, but precisely the scope of a new protocol
being developed by folks at CMU.  It's called ACAP, for Application
Configuration Access Protocol. 

We hope to have ACAP support in Pine later this year.

(And I'm hoping web browser vendors will also jump on the ACAP bandwagon
so I can finally have a single shared bookmark file...)

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Brian L. Heess)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:15:25 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Brian L.
Heess) wrote:

I should have mentioned that this happens in both 3.92 and now 3.93.

Cheers!
-Brian