Re: Address book

On Jun 2, 2004, at 11:12, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:32:27AM -0600, Pete wrote:
>> Is there any funtion to import an address book...aside from re-typing 
>> my
>> complete address book?
>
> It's a plain text file, so if you have shell access to the account in
> question, you just paste the entries in.
>
> Make one sample entry so you can see the format. It's just like an 
> aliases
> file I seem to remember.
>
> I'm pretty sure there's no import function via the web interface 
> though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.


No, no interface yet.

Also, the format also uses multiple lines for multi-address aliases, 
rather than just commas.

Because of that, importing from (or exporting to) the standard 
tab-/comma-delimited data of most other systems is harder than it 
should be. (Not necessarily "hard" mind you, but certainly "harder".) 
And the only way to do it is from the command line -- which is 
unfortunate.

So, if you make a test entry as Brian wisely suggests... I'd advise you 
to actually make both a single address entry AND an entry with 2 or 
more addresses. That way you can see what each looks like. -- I mean, 
they're done with the same layout actually (one's just a minimized form 
of the other), but you should probably see them both.

As I said, there's nothing particularly "hard" about it really... it's 
just a bit awkward and requires command line access currently. *shrug* 
Perhaps someone (maybe even me) will get motivated someday to patch it 
for Sam. Till that happens though, it's all we've got, I'm afraid.

-jab