Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays & anniversaries out of Evolution

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 08:47 -0400, theapplepie differentmail com wrote:
> Hi Milan
> Thanks a lot! The tool also works on Ubuntu 14.04, although it is in 
> a slightly different folder, command example:
> /usr/lib/evolution/3.10/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv 
> –output=/home/.../mycontacts.csv 
> The format csv is surely easier to process than vcf.

If you are scripting-handy the Python module vobject parses [and
composes] vCard data.
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/pythonvobject/>

> A question from a programming layman: Why is the option to export to 
> csv not included in the GUI of evolution? Could this be added in a 
> future version?
> I think the csv-format is more common today.

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