[Tfug] Address books

[Anthony Steckman]

My experience with a few graphical clients:

kmail -- gui was weird, kind of old-fashioned looking; the program 
itself lacked many of the features available in other graphical (even 
command line) clients.

evolution -- very nice... if you like MS Outlook; if not, then... not; 
overall a very robust client that has worked very well when i have used 
it; the worst bugs i've encountered always had to do with accessing 
large volumes of e-mail from an IMAP server.

mozilla mail -- using it now; probably the best, most user-friendly 
experience i've had with an e-mail client under Linux; does everything i 
want it to, and usually pretty well; only drawback: if you update 
aggressively you will sometimes encounter *extremely* broken builds.

I like PINE a lot, though. Reading this thread makes me want to set it 
up again.


Jeremy Rogers wrote:
> 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
> Cc:	
> 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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