[Tfug] Address books

[Jeremy Rogers]

Great question.  I have also been a pine, then elm, and most recently mutt user.  I am finally willing to cave in and use a gui client that can handle html and other shtuff that everbody seems to just need in their email.  

I also would like address books compatible with my pda.  I've been looking at a couple of clients like mohogany, balsa, spruce, kmail, and evolution. Any big pros or cons to these?  

JDR


-----Original Message-----
From:	tfug-bounces at tfug.org on behalf of John Gruenenfelder
Sent:	Tue 11/18/2003 6:29 PM
To:	Tucson Free UNIX Group
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Subject:	[Tfug] Address books
What do you all use, if anything, for an address book in Linux/X/whatever?

I use Mutt as my mailer and it has its own limited mail alias file, but it's
TOO limited.  I've found the Little Brother's Database (lbdb) which can let
Mutt query other programs.  So, now the question becomes what other program to
use?

The address book on my Palm has all the features I need, but not many programs
can parse the PDB (though lbdb can).

GnomeCard seems to have all the features I could possibly ever want and it
keeps its data in plain text VCARD files.  That's good.  Unfortunately, while
it is listed as part of Gnome Office, there doesn't appear to be any work
being done on it and I would worry that it might fall into oblivion.

So, what are you using?  My goal is to find a program that has all the
necessary features and can import/export to many other formats so that I can
have one *single* address book to share among them.  Thus far, the imperfect
solution seems to be GnomeCard and abook (to do the conversions).


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