SQL email contacts database?

solway · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:01

Does anyone know of a way to make a database of email/phone contacts and link it up with thunderbird clients (so its shared and syncable between multiple users)??

can it be done with SQL?

complete novice in this area...
can tutorials would be helpful

daz · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:10

You can probably turn the SQL into a CSV, which could probably be imported into Exchange and shared between everyone.

There are a few open source email/collaboration suites that emulate some of the features of Exchange, but I have limited experience of those and none come to mind.

solway · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:46

any stand only databases that can be used directly to thunderbird

don't have exchange you see.

i'am using gmail mail for your domain. however the contacts don't sync with google right due to mapping of fields are different. im feeling like i am losing data due to this.

not only that, i also require the same database to be used for multi users - gmail doesn't provided for this, only the calendar does this.

daz · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:53

Any mail client should be able to import CSV data - it's just the sharing of the data that Exchange is good at. If you're fine with everyone having their own copy and therefore not needing synchronization between contacts, just give everyone a CSV of the SQL data to import into their mail client...