Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:31:53 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, 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: <20070917233153.GA82108@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20070917212432.GN52705@amilo.cenkes.org> References: <20070917042703.GA73835@thought.org> <20070917144619.GK52705@amilo.cenkes.org> <20070917193551.GA80219@thought.org> <20070917212432.GN52705@amilo.cenkes.org>
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:24:33AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> 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.
Easily done, thanks.
>
> > 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.
I'll google for it; thanks for the tip.
>
> P.S. Must you really insert a tab before each line in your
> messages? It certainly doesn't make them look pretty.
Failing eyesight. The whitespace helps me far more than
the greater-than's.....
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