Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:24:33 +0400 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: is there any way of turning muttrc list into an evolution or other mail alias database? Message-ID: <20070917212432.GN52705@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <20070917193551.GA80219@thought.org> References: <20070917042703.GA73835@thought.org> <20070917144619.GK52705@amilo.cenkes.org> <20070917193551.GA80219@thought.org>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:35:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:46:20PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:27:03PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > This may be a bit off the wall, but does anybody have a tool to > > > take my dozens of mutt aliases and turn them into an evolution > > > -style database format? (if not, is there any universal > > > "address-book" app that I could use?) > > > > A sed one-liner could probably solve the problem, but try > > mail/abook - it's a nice converter. > > Can you help me with the exact syntax? As a test, I tried: > abook --convert --informat mutt --infile > /home/kline/.mutt/muttrc --outformat abook --outfile abook I think you should put your aliases in a separate file and use that as an infile. > An emtpy file ~/.abook/addressbook.new was created. ((I still > stand by what I'd said for years, that a few examples are worth > 10K words.)) > > Re a sed line to get this stuff into ~/.evolution/*, maybe. > This may be where another very simple perl script would serve > btter. Further clues very welcome. Google says something about evo being able to import ldif files. Abook can convert mutt's aliases into ldif. P.S. Must you really insert a tab before each line in your messages? It certainly doesn't make them look pretty.
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