Lightweight Contact Manager - LiCoM
-===================================-

LiCoM is a contact manager I started writing because my family, my friends and
myself were not very comfortable with the many existing address book scripts.
The demands were:
- High compatibility with existing e-mail readers
- Read and write operations
- Export to vCards
- Print lists of groups and/or all contacts
- Multi-user capable

These requirements are tried to be met with the following approach:
- Data is kept in an LDAP database (the overall layout is shown in "The big
  picture")
- The LDAP-server is accessed through perl modules which prodide a high-level
  interface to the database.
- On top of these modules a CGI-script has been written.



The big picture
---------------

[dc=org]
 |
 `->[dc=verplant]
     |
     `->[ou=addresses]
         |
	 +->[cn=Forster Florian]
	 |   |
	 |   +->[cn=Test Person]
	 |   +->[cn=Someone Else]
	 |   :  ...
	 |   `->[cn=Last Person]
	 |
	 +->[cn=Another User]
	 |   |
	 |   +->[cn=Still More Entries]
	 :   :