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by jg » Tue, 14 May 2002 12:03:33

Hi there,

Is there an easy way to import contacts in the kaddressbook that is within
kmail? I went to the Import selection in the kaddressbook, but the only
options are importing a KDE2 address book, a vcard, or "list." I have my
contacts saved in csv format, pst format, but neither of those would work.
I'm using kde3 on mandrake 8.2.

Any help would be appreciated. TIA

by **Ami Setto** » Wed, 15 May 2002 03:55:11

I wrestled with this myself. I was using outlook 2000.

First off, go save your contacts as Tab separated -
Then, go to ESR's homepage - find the "lookout" script he's written:
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/lookout/index.html

I made a few changes to the lookout script to work properly for
the KDE 2.2.2 addressbook. A few names in the map were off a bit, and I
also added some logic to generate the "FileAs" string.

I'll attach the output of a diff to this post. it's small.
Feel free to use it or not, whatever.

Please note:
1) I don't know Python, and I'm very lazy.
2) There seem to be a few superflous changes in the diff, I think it may
have
to do with the editor I used and I'm not sure if Python scripts are
supposed to be tabified or not (see note #1 :)
3) Yeah, I probably should've made the FileAs logic an option, but see
the second part of note #1 :)

Good luck - lemme know if I can help...

-Ami Setton

> Hi there,

> Is there an easy way to import contacts in the kaddressbook that is within
> kmail? I went to the Import selection in the kaddressbook, but the only
> options are importing a KDE2 address book, a vcard, or "list." I have my
> contacts saved in csv format, pst format, but neither of those would work.
> I'm using kde3 on mandrake 8.2.

> Any help would be appreciated. TIA

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by **Ami Setto** » Wed, 15 May 2002 04:02:47

> I wrestled with this myself. I was using outlook 2000.

> First off, go save your contacts as Tab separated -
> Then, go to ESR's homepage - find the "lookout" script he's written:
> http://tuxedo.org/~esr/lookout/index.html

> I made a few changes to the lookout script to work properly for
> the KDE 2.2.2 addressbook. A few names in the map were off a bit, and I
> also added some logic to generate the "FileAs" string.

> I'll attach the output of a diff to this post. it's small.
> Feel free to use it or not, whatever.

> Please note:
> 1) I don't know Python, and I'm very lazy.
> 2) There seem to be a few superflous changes in the diff, I think it may
> have
> to do with the editor I used and I'm not sure if Python scripts are
> supposed to be tabified or not (see note #1 :)
> 3) Yeah, I probably should've made the FileAs logic an option, but see
> the second part of note #1 :)

> Good luck - lemme know if I can help...

> -Ami Setton

>> Hi there,

>> Is there an easy way to import contacts in the kaddressbook that is
>> within kmail? I went to the Import selection in the kaddressbook, but
>> the only options are importing a KDE2 address book, a vcard, or
>> "list." I have my contacts saved in csv format, pst format, but
>> neither of those would work. I'm using kde3 on mandrake 8.2.

>> Any help would be appreciated. TIA

AND I top-posted, shame on me.
I also forgot to mention, though you might know, that you can use the
"patch" command with those diffs I posted to make the "patched" version
of esr's script. The syntax escapes me but it's one of two ways, so you
can trial-and-error it, with likely only one error maximum.

Enjoy.

-Ami

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