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And work on WebDAV was spun up to bring more structure to distributed authoring with HTTP. Right around this time IETF's RFC 2425 pondered ways to express and map vCard-like contact information in other protocols and applications, like Email and Directories. These efforts were later transferred to the Internet Mail Consortium, where vCalendar was renamed iCalendar, but vCard kept its name. In the mid-1990s, PDAs and web pages made a detached 'contact' datatype useful, so vCard was developed by the Versit Consortium, the makers of vCalendar. These often support LDAP.įor management of personal contacts, this is imperfect. It's a spillover from the strange (but comprehensive) land of enterprise communication and productivity software like of Lotus Notes, Exchange, and GroupWise, but also influenced by the web browser "suites" of the late 1990s.Įmail naturally gives rise to contact management in corporate settings most of this is derived from org-driven data, which can be laid out in a hierarchical directory. On Windows I'd just install emClient and call it a day (and would avoid Outlook, which I desperately dislike). I've also looked at Zimbra and the former Zarafa (now Kopano) and Kolab and some others, and Fastmail's web client remains the easiest and friendliest solution, while Evolution remains the best desktop client capable of handling IMAP/CALDAV/CARDDAV. On KDE, Kontact (encompassing Kmail, Korganizer for calendars and Kontact) works very well for my techie colleagues but is a bit weird for non-technical staff.

There's a recent new add-on that purports to deal with carddav and caldav in Thunderbird, but it's still got a rough edge or two, and annoyingly, remains an "add-on" which aesthetically sends the wrong signal. My two go-to solutions on Linux desktops are Evolution, as mentioned, and the web client for Fastmail, which offers email, calendaring and contact sharing.

Linux devs spent a lot of time working on the "replacement for Outlook" in the early 2000s before giving up and spending their energy blowing up Gnome2's otherwise-perfectly functioning DE instead. Thunderbird does mail but its contact solutions require LDAP, not CardDav and its calendar solutions are bolted on, not integral. I went to Evolution as a client, which handles all of the above. I'm building out a small consulting company based on Linux, and the basis of it all - email, contacts, calendars - is a fiasco. I've spent a lot of time looking into this and am as frustrated as you.