Re: [Evolution] LDAP Address Book Setup

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 07:14, Sean M Alderman wrote:
> Speaking of Shell Scripting for LDAP pasting into a To/CC field, I had
> mentioned this a long time ago...pre 1.0 days, that a nice feature
> enhancement would be to allow for external address sources like shell
> scripts to be incorporated.  Perhaps some kind of Addressbook Plugin
> architecture where Evo/Ximian tells developers what it will send the
> plugin (from a contact search or completion attempt) and people with
> other types of Directories...(x.500, finger, phonebook)... can write a
> plugin to use those as their addressbook source.  But, either no one
> thought it was a good idea, or they thought it wasn't important enough.

The addressbook already supports extensible backend types, there are 4
available at the moment, 2 ship with evolution in source form.

There *is* a lack of documentation regarding the api used, but I'd be
more than happy to answer any questsions people have about the PAS api
if someone expresses an interest in writing an additional backend type.

Chris