Re: [O] exported contacts problem

[Jean Louis]

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 <address@hidden> [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 <address@hidden> 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