Subject: IMAP addressbooks and mbx format

From: "S. Alexander Jacobson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:01:33 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

I frequently access my mail from multiple
computers simultaneously.  I use mbx format to
make sure that I don't have locking problems.

However, Pine doesn't appear to want to deal with
mbx addressbooks.  Any solutions?

-Alex-

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 03:34:57 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> mbx addressbooks.  Any solutions?

A while ago (maybe over a year ago), I experimented with using
c-client MBX format for my remote address books and also could
not get it to work. I posted about my problem either here or in
comp.mail.pine and got a reply from the UW team saying that it
worked for them. I didn't pursue the problem and I don't have
time to do some experiments now. Here are some things that might
affect the situation.

* What is the default mailbox format on you IMAP server? If it is
Unix spool (mbox), then maybe that is part of the problem
(although it seems like it shouldn't be but that might be a
difference between our setups and the UW setup)

* How did you create the abook.cMBX (remote abook in cMBX
format)?

* How did you try to populate it with an address book?

* How did you set up Pine to access this abook? I recommend
directly editing the pinerc rather than using Pine's config
screens because I've had false error messages when using Pine's
config screens to set up a remote address book that already
exists on the server.

HTH,
Let us know if you figure anything out,
Nancy

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:49:43 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Yes, like Nancy said, it does work for us. I'm wondering if you are able
to read the folder as a regular mail folder using pine. For example, you
do something like

 Goto        {imap.server}remote_addressbook

and then look at the messages. Since a remote addressbook is a regular
mail folder that ought to work. Thanks.

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