Contacts and Calendars Standard

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Monday 14 July 2003 21:12, Daniel Farrell wrote:
> Cool...  I had somehow missed that document.  The locations should
> definitely be:
>
> $XDG_DATA_HOME/contacts/CategoryName.vcf
> $XDG_DATA_HOME/calendars/CalendarName.ics
> $XDG_DATA_HOME/mail/MailboxName.mbox
>
> What do you guys think of the file formats?  Are vCard, iCalendar and mbox
> the way to go for storing the local information?

I'm not working on any PIM application but vCard and iCalendar sound good.
mbox is a somewhat crappy format, I like MailDir (each message in its own 
file) better. The problem with shared mail-folders tends to be the indexing 
though. I'm not aware of any standard for that.

Cheers,
Waldo
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