Subject: RE: Global Address Book

From: Roger Sabin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:51:07 -0700

No, we are not trying to setup a shared personal addressbook. We want to setup a shared global addressbook that contains the e-mail addresses of everyone in the company. We have not found a way yet to put addresses into the global addressbook. How do you setup a shared global addressbook? We are using Pine 4.05 on an AIX system.

Roger Sabin
[email-masked]

-----Original Message-----
From:	Shawn Jeffries [SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Thursday, March 04, 1999 9:11 AM
To:	Pine Discussion Forum
Subject:	Re: Global Address Book

Well, a global addressbook is always read-only.

Are you trying to set a shared personal addressbook, where people can make
changes to it? What version of Pine are you using? And what operating
system?

Give us more info and maybe we can help.

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    Shawn Jeffries
    [email-masked]

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Roger Sabin wrote:

>We have not been able to figure out how to make the global address book
work in Pine. It always shows as being read only or un-readable. Any ideas?
>Roger Sabin
>[email-masked]

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From: Shawn Jeffries <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:12:07 -0500 (EST)

There is no difference between global and normal addressbooks other than
the fact that Pine considers global addressbooks read-only and personal
addressbooks as writeable (normal file permissions allowing). Look here
(http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html#addrbook) for
more information.

The best way I've found to do it is to run Pine as root and set up a
normal addressbook under a location readable by everyone. Add your
addresses to it. Make sure the permissions on that file are set to read
only (so noone can change them without being root). Then specify this file
for your users as their global addressbook.

One problem, which may or may not affect you, is that 4.05 and 4.04 did
have a bug when setting up a global addressbook. Get 4.10 just in case.

-- 
    Shawn Jeffries
    [email-masked]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Roger Sabin wrote:

>No, we are not trying to setup a shared personal addressbook. We want to
 setup a shared global addressbook that contains the e-mail addresses of
 everyone in the company. We have not found a way yet to put addresses
 into the global addressbook. How do you setup a shared global
 addressbook? We are using Pine 4.05 on an AIX system.