Uwe Brauer wrote: > In ancient times jwz wrote a bbdb export filter to > the netscape address book. > > Today mozilla can import from a comma or tab separated list. I played > around with it, but was not entirely successful to convert my bbdb > into a mozilla adressbook. > > Did anybody try this?
[resent to list from a non-obsolete email address - nmg] I did this last week, and still have the scars to show for it. I used http://www.diku.dk/~elgaard/lib/emacs/bbdb-ldif.el for the conversion, since Mozilla doesn't yet have an import facility for vCards, but can import LDIF. The ldif export code seems to have been written for an older version of bbdb, since bbdb-address-street1 (etc) don't exist any more. The fixes to make it work with a more recent bbdb were trivial. The most important thing to remember (for people like myself who used bbdb to store *everything*) is to set bbdb-elided-export-ldif to exclude those fields which don't translate well into Mozilla's schema. Overall the conversion was successful, but Mozilla's schema is very, very limited compared to bbdb (only two email addresses for a person, for example), and there are outstanding issues regarding duplicate addressbook records in Mozilla. Is this any help? -- Nick Gibbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] IAM (Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia) tel: +44 (0) 23 80598347 Electronics and Computer Science fax: +44 (0) 23 80592865 University of Southampton ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
