-- Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 14 November 2002, 11:15 AM +0530): > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > Do you still have the address book on your windows machine? Is it > > possible to export the addresses as vCards? If so, it might make sense > > for you to do so, and then import them into gnomecard (in deb package > > gnome-pim). lbdb (little brother database) has conduits for gnomecard, > > which means that you could use lbdb to grab addresses from gnomecard for > > mutt. (I use lbdb with the palm modules to grab addresses synced from my > > palm by jpilot -- it's seamless, fast, and very useful.) > > this seems interesting and i am working on it. in the meantime, will this mean that >i will have to have my X running all the time? often, i do not have X running while i >check my mails!
Depends on what you'd be doing. I use mutt, and lbdb queries my palm database (which I sync via jpilot, a GTK app). lbdb doesn't care if jpilot is open or not -- it's simply looking at the database. It would be the same way with using the gnomecard conduit. So, in this case -- simply writing emails to people -- you wouldn't need X. However, you may need X open if you want to change your addressbook -- add an address, delete an address, etc. One note, though -- gnomecard keeps all addresses in a flat text file, and this file is in standard vCard format. Which means you *could* edit and add addresses by hand, as long as you follow the format correctly. (I've done this in the past, actually.) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
