[Gllug] Address books

[Jon Dye]

I've got lots of files in several directories on several computers all
containing names, addresses, phone numbers and email addressess of
people I know in multiple different formats.  I want to consolidate
these into one location so that I can actually find the things.

Ideally I'd be able to search the data, use it from my email client,
word processor, mailing label script, etc.

Initially I was going to stick them in a custom SQl database but I
wondered if LDAP might provide a better solution.  Not knowing much
about LDAP I thought I'd ask here.  I know that thunderbird, openoffice
and various other programs I run can read address information from LDAP
servers but I'm not sure if any of these are able to update the
information.  Is LDAP esentially read only or will I be able to update
the info from my apps?  has anyone here used LDAP for this purpose and
can give some real world pros and cons?

Any pointers appreciated.

JD
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