From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 21:24:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5147016A41A for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@FreeBSD.org) Received: from heka.cenkes.org (heka.cenkes.org [208.79.80.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418AB13C469 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (ppp85-140-150-56.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [85.140.150.56]) (Authenticated sender: sat) by heka.cenkes.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05882E9594B; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:24:54 +0400 (MSD) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:24:33 +0400 From: Andrew Pantyukhin To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20070917212432.GN52705@amilo.cenkes.org> References: <20070917042703.GA73835@thought.org> <20070917144619.GK52705@amilo.cenkes.org> <20070917193551.GA80219@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070917193551.GA80219@thought.org> X-OS: FreeBSD amilo.cenkes.org 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: is there any way of turning muttrc list into an evolution or other mail alias database? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: infofarmer@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:24:37 -0000 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.