Hi,
I just imported an ldif contacts list from Thunderbird into Evolution
and I find that some of the fields like "address" and "city" are
missing. I think the problem lies in Evolution's importer. It's failing
to map some fields in the file to the address book. The following
solutions are feasible:
- Creating a gui importing mapper like in Thunderbird. It lists all
the fields in the contact list file and Thunderbird's address book and
asks the user to map the corresponding fields.
- Creating program(s) that will adapt contact list of various other
clients to the current Evolution importer.
- Modifying the importer itself to accommodate address books from
other clients (If the importer doesn't support Thunderbird address
books, it's hard to imagine what other client it supports!)
NOTE: The importer is obviously not built to support it's own address
book formats because it doesn't support exporting address either. It
has a program called evolution-exporter or something in the install dir
which outputs addresses as vcards to stdout, remotely useful with the
print feature around.
Is it impossible to export as a file like ldif presently? 'cos if it
were, I can atleast create a test contact and export it to see the
fields and modify my ldif accordingly so it can atleast import
properly...
Regards,
Ram
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