[Tfug] Any recommendations for address management?

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:22:47PM -0700, Choprboy wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:19, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> > I've recently switched to Mutt for email and one thing I've not
> > yet implemented is my email address book.
[snip]
> > Any recommendations?
> 
> The more "standard" heterogeneous address book exchange format 
> these days is vCard (similar to vCalendar/iCalendar for 
> calendar information exchange). Lots and lots of different 
> programs support it, both import and export, and it appears a 
> number of different people have written script for Mutt to 
> import vCard information. vCard does allow arbitrary storage 
> field headers X-, just like email headers, so it would just be 
> a matter of undating the Mutt scripts to parse and import your 
> arbitrary information to the correct spot.

Thanks, that is something to explore further.

-- 
Glen