Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:49:48 +0400 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: is there any way of turning muttrc list into an evolution or other mail alias database? Message-ID: <20070920124947.GB94826@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <20070919191355.GA889@thought.org> References: <20070917042703.GA73835@thought.org> <20070917144619.GK52705@amilo.cenkes.org> <20070917193551.GA80219@thought.org> <20070917212432.GN52705@amilo.cenkes.org> <20070917233153.GA82108@thought.org> <20070919191355.GA889@thought.org>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:13:55PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:31:53PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > Google says something about evo being able to import ldif files. > > > Abook can convert mutt's aliases into ldif. > > > > > > I'll google for it; thanks for the tip. > > Thanks to Andrew's posting I did find a few references on how > to use abook to create the basics of email addresses for evol. > Not enough, tho to let me get very far, tho, so if anybody has > a sed script that can put the 'alias', "Name", <email@foo> into > evolution format, that would be a help. Or if any one of you > has actually used mutt|elm and abook to do this, I'd be very > much in your debt for an example. I will post on my BSD > website. OK, I had to install evolution to try this, but it works flawlessly: % abook --convert --infile ./.mutt/aliases --informat mutt \ --outformat ldif --outfile /tmp/try.ldif Then go to evo, File->Import->Single file->/tmp/try.ldif And I'm looking at my address book in evo.
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