[Tfug] Any recommendations for address management?

[Ken Steen]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:19:13AM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> I've recently switched to Mutt for email and one thing I've not 
> yet implemented is my email address book.
> 
> 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?

I have been using abook with mutt. abook.sourceforge.net  It has fields
for addresses, phone numbers, and custom information.  It integrates
well with mutt and has export filters for VCard and other formats as
well as import filters.  It uses a simple text file as its native
format.  

Ken