Bug 221028

Summary:	Thunderbird Addressbook should implement vCard 3.0
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2004>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6	CC:	mbarnes, mcepl, mlichvar, notting
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Description Răzvan Sandu 2006-12-30 16:52:38 UTC

Description of problem:

Apparently, in this moment there is no standard, consistent way to exchange
personal data information between the various components of a Linux suite &
other programs and devices, such as:

- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Evolution
- KAddressbook
- Gnome Contacts
- mutt, pine, elm
- gnome-phone-manager & gnokii
- mobile phones
- various Windows applications

IMHO, Thunderbird's Addressbook should implement a standard way of *directly*
opening and saving vCard 3.0 files (RFC 2425 and RFC 2426), beside .ldif files.

All PIMs and e-mail clients should use a central "repository" of Personal
Information Data.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-1.5.0.9-2.fc6
mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6
gnome-phone-manager-0.8-3.fc6
evolution-2.8.2.1-2.fc6

How reproducible:
Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
There is no standard way/format of directly exchanging personal data information
between various PIMs (independent of SO), e-mail clients, mobile phones, LDAP
servers, etc.

There is no standard, FHS-compliant place, for a single Personal Information
Data repository on the system (each PIM keeps its database in one arbitrary place).


Expected results:
The above should exist.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2007-01-02 03:54:09 UTC

As this is an RFE, changing severity. Honestly, this looks to be something best
tackled upstream.

Comment 2 Răzvan Sandu 2007-01-10 12:24:24 UTC

Hello,

I've submitted this RFE both to Thunderbird:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=508632&highlight=


and to FHS (for a standardised place for addresbooks):
http://bugs.freestandards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104

Regards,
Răzvan

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2007-02-07 09:38:30 UTC

This is really upstream bug and it has been already reported couple of times --
look for example on the bugs

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221991
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20304
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79709

Closing as CLOSED/UPSTREAM.