Re: mailutils (vcard/vcalendar)

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:46:08PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> >   In the (short) future, I'm looking at putting some support for
> > VCard and VCalendar (see http://www.imc.org/pdi) for more details
> > 
> > If somebody know of any "free" package/lib doing this let me know.
> > I'm looking currently at abook and mcal, looks nice.
> 
> Have they updated the protocol yet so that a server can stand as a
> reasonable proxy yet?  My biggest problem so far with the calendaring
> specs is that they're all email based, so don't allow for a server to
> answer the requests for me.

Good questions.  I do not know.  I did not go through the papers yet:

  *     RFC 2425, MIME Content-Type for Directory Information 
  *     RFC 2426, vCard MIME Directory Profile 

  *     RFC 2445, Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification 
        (iCalendar) 
  *     RFC 2446, iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol 
        (iTIP): Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries 
  *     RFC 2447, iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) 

But since now they are std RFCs, they probably corrected some of the
downfalls. rfc2446 title looks promising.


> I'd love to see our imap4/pop3 servers do that.

Unfortunately, I did not see anything in the IMAP4V1 and POP3 rfcs that
address the issue.  Maybe the new drafts or we can put them as
"extensions".  However I see more and more mail clients using it
which is a good thing.

On a good note, I think we'll have a working imap4 server by the end
of the week (minus that I do not broke any fingers or other body parts
again biking 8)

Of course it is pre-pre-alpha stuff, with the feedback from
Sergey and others the pop3d server seems to be coming alive nicely.
Still that $*#&(^) locking annoyance 8-).

Later,

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au revoir, alain
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