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Ffffffffffffffffffffffff****k!!

Bloody Ldap nonsense!

I'm typing on my MacBook, I work on a PC desktop, I carry a windows Mobile phone (to be replaced with an Android one as soon as I find one I like). I use a webmail client hosted on my own Ubuntu Server.

I work with a number of different devices and operating systems from any of which I may need to send an email or otherwise contact someone.

Currently I have to employ a number of synchronizing mechanisms to fake having a centralised address book. Why can't I actually have a centralised book?

There is Ldap, it's supposedly the industry standard for such. It is to laugh.

Thunderbird has it's own idea of the schema for the data, quite different and incompatible from anything Microsoft employs. Even if I did use one rather than the other no applications or scripting framwork (such as the PHP application you're likely to use as an open source webmail provider) has a simple plug 'n play to Ldap address book interface.

It's almost 2010 and there's no standard address book database and API for applications. The I.T emperor has no clothes.