IMAP and address book

Email is my primary communication method. And being able to login from any client and get my received, sent, and even see which messages I have read and already replied to is a great thing for me. IMAP (server-to-client alternate to the more widespread POP) allows me to do all this.

Though there is one thing I miss… Where are all my contact information? Why did they leave the address book out of the equation?

I love IMAP. I really do! It is super when I access email on a set of different computers. But not being able to synchronize the address book in the same way as I synchronize mail activities between clients just seams old fashion.

My email provider, Runbox, offers me all the storage I could possibly need (10 GB) and IMAP. But I still have to manually export my email client's address book, upload it to their servers, download it wherever else I might want to access it, and import it back in again in the client.

I really wish that they would have included contact details in the IMAP protocol. Well anyways… Does anyone have a good alternate to the manual export-transfer-import scenario? Webmail is not an option.

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On .Mac, you can sync your Address Book to the .Mac, and thus have your entire address book available on the webmail for .Mac.

If you use a new computer you just resync.

And of course the e-mail is IMAP.

Not much storage though, I'll give you that. They're lagging behind a whole lot on that.

Comment by Magnus Damli at 2007-03-02 @400.

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