From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Louis Subject: Re: exported contacts problem Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 23:00:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20190802210017.GY17561@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <874l2zpase.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htef0-00063d-Iw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:00:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hteez-0001NF-I8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:00:22 -0400 Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:55775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hteez-0001Kx-B2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:00:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874l2zpase.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Tim Cross Cc: Jude DaShiell , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I would recommend the software named `abook'[1] as it can convert between the vcard format and CSV format, LDIF, and other formats handy to read them into the Emacs Lisp structure. It is available in many GNU/Linux system distributions[2]. Jean * Tim Cross [2019-08-02 22:34]: > > Are you using an emacs based email client like mu4e or gnus? What (if > anything) do you use to manage contact information now i.e. BBDB, Asking as > I am aware that some email clients have support for vcard processing and > some contact managers also have support for vcard (i.e. bbdb), so > initial processing may be easier from witin the mail client (new > versions of mu4e are moving to use gnus as the message view mode, which > has some advantced functions for dealing with vcard and ical > attachments). > > There is also an org-vcard module, but last time I tried using this, I > encountered some problems (can't remember what they were now - it was a > while back, but it may have only support older vcard versions). > > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > I have one email message with several .vcf file attachments. Has orgmode > > got any tool or tools I can use to import contacts from such a message > > into an orgmode table? Footnotes: [1] http://abook.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html