I don't really have a "corporate" address book -- it would be nice to
have a way of importing a .csv file - that stuff is pretty easy to get
working once, much harder to generalize for the average schmo (but
Squeakers are way above average :)

It would be nice to be able to store it in a generic format on a server
so you don't lose your address book every time you use a different
computer. That is the appeal of LDAP to me, although I also don't know
much about the details. There is a free LDAP project at
http://www.openldap.org - setting up a server is a bit sensitive because
people are justifiably concerned about putting their contacts in a place
where they could be purloined, but just becuase it's on the net doesn't
mean it's public.

I'll give you a hand if you'd like. I'm not real familiar with
programming Squeak, but I've done a bit, and I am reasonably proficient
in Smalltalk (I'm especially apprehensive about change sets, but I'm
sure I can pick it up :). Celeste could use some pretty obvious
enhancements - I'd like to have message status and drag and drop into
folders, but based on a preliminary look at things, these might be a bit
of work. We'll see.

Steve

"Stephan B. Wessels" <stephan.wessels at sdrc.com> wrote:
> I wrote some address book code for Celeste, including a Netscape
> addrebook importer, but got distracted by paying work and had to suspend
> it.  If anyone wants to help we could probably get at least that part
> working in a weekend.
> 
>  - Steve
> 
> Mike Rutenberg wrote:
> 
> > As far as I know, everyone is doing this manually right now.  I
> > certainly am.  I want to change this though.
> >
> > LDAP is something I know nothing about, but might be a good option
> > especially if you have an existing (corporate?) address book.
> >
> > Interfaces to an external address book is also a possibility.
> >
> > There are some very interesting options to use the message index
> > information as a fast automatically collected database of "important"
> > email addresses.  This is done previously by JWZ (?) Big Brother
> > Database for emacs mail reading.  I do this manually by using the
> > "Participants Filter" to find the email address of my intended
> > recipient.  I tried some experiments with this last week but have not
> > finished it.
> >
> > Mike