[Tfug] Any recommendations for address management?

[Don Freeman]

Sorry, I can't help you there. I'm not familiar with any of the Linux dbms.
It's just that those 2 formats are pretty universal, at least in the Winx
area. I would assume CSV at least would be supported in Linux. Another
pretty standard format is SDF wherein each column is a fixed width in a
standard text file. 


Don W. Freeman
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-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of Glen
Pfeiffer
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:00 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Any recommendations for address management?

On Thu May 15, 2008 at 11:51:02AM -0700, Don Freeman wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glen Pfeiffer
> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:19 AM
> > 
> > I was using the Thunderbird/Icedove Address Book which allows for 
> > much more than just name and email address. I included things such 
> > as residential address, phone numbers, etc. I want to migrate all 
> > this data into another storage format that I can access from Mutt. 
> > LDAP seems to be the most obvious answer but I want to consider 
> > other options because I don't really like LDAP. I want a format that 
> > has a very stable future so I do not need to migrate this data 
> > again.
> > 
> > Any recommendations?
> 
> CSV ???
> If you want something that will always be usable.
> I prefer the old DBF for my work. Glen

Thanks for the ideas. How would you recommend querying that data from Mutt?
I don't know much about the facilities for accessing addresses from within
Mutt, but I know it can access LDAP and alias files. I'd also prefer to
avoid hacking out a custom solution if there is a canned one that works.

-- 
Glen 


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