From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jude DaShiell Subject: Re: exported contacts problem Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 12:06:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190802160236.GR17561@protected.rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hta4y-0001m0-Ue for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:06:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hta4x-0000Ae-Uj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:06:52 -0400 Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:63700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hta4x-0000AE-RL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:06:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20190802160236.GR17561@protected.rcdrun.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: Jean Louis Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I have about 80 contacts so this is a personal contacts situation not a business contacts situation. On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Jean Louis wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 12:02:36 > From: Jean Louis > To: Jude DaShiell > Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [O] exported contacts problem > > * Jude DaShiell [2019-08-02 17:48]: > > 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? > > And by all means, I would never keep contact in Org file, that is for > short list fine, but for any future planning, contacts shall be in a > real database sorted by its lists. > > A list could be group of people, or account name, or company name, or > organization, or interest lists. > > Neither bbdb nor Org is suitable for any serious collection of > contacts. I have 192,000+ contacts, and when they are in database and > I am using PostgreSQL, it gives me most of benefits, I can sort people > into lists, groups, I can contact them, count interactions, open up > their files, emails with a fast command, edit their data, add notes, > send them faxes and SMS, maintain relations. > > Jean > --