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I am looking for a client-server package (preferably with the server on |
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gentoo from portage) which provides something which is vaguely like |
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CRM... but in reverse - and for personal as opposed to corporate use. |
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One requirement is for it to act as an address book that will allow me |
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to associate: |
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Contact name, phone number, mobile number, email address etc. |
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Company name, location, notes |
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Communication time-stamp; notes; associated documents. |
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I'd like to be able to search all that for keywords... and to be able to |
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find out at a glance from, say, a phone number when I was last contacted |
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and what happened. I'd also like to be able to tell quickly if I've |
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talked to other contacts at the same company - and, if so, how recently |
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- and about what. |
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Of primary importance is the idea that I want to be able to resolve |
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these kinds of things as quickly as possible (so it looks as if I'm not |
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yet senile because I don't remember who someone is.) It would be great |
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if it would integrate with my postfix email server and tag incoming |
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mails if they are referenced by my inverse CRM system. :-) |
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I think it would be invaluable when getting quotes for things, for |
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example, when you ask a dozen companies - forget who is who... but then |
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get quotes by phone... and you wish you knew what they had promised on |
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the previous call. |
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Does anyone use anything that might fit the bill? Any other suggestions? |
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Does anyone use a good address book (preferably one which integrates |
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with Thunderbird via LDAP)? |
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I hope this isn't too off-topic. |
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