Is there such a thing as a "standard" contacts book?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Amedee Van Gasse
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>wrote:

> On Sun, July 24, 2011 13:18, David Fletcher wrote:
> > Thanks for the replies, folks.
> >
> > I've taken a look at a couple of information pages and the whole thing
> > looks horribly complex and OTT for something that I would have thought
> > ought to be reasonably easy and commonplace.
>
> My best guess is that nobody bothers any more, when you have Google.
> Unfortunately there is no ldap.google.com, but take a look at GCALDaemon:
> http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/usage4.html
> It's almost point-and-click, but you still need a server somewhere to run
> GCALDaemon. That's OK for me, I share a box in a datacenter, but it's not
> suitable for everyone.
>

If you have your contacts in Google and want to share them with Thunderbird
email clients you might look at Zindus http://www.zindus.com/ (Thunderbird
plugin) as it is much easier to configure and use than gcaldaemon. Zindus is
not perfect but it works pretty well, whereas I kept running into
configuration issues trying to get gcaldaemon to work at all.
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