[Tickets #4241] Re: Add support for importing Pine distribution lists

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4241
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 Ticket             | 4241
 Updated By         | Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>
 Summary            | Add support for importing Pine distribution lists
 Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
 Version            | HEAD
 Type               | Enhancement
 State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Owners             | 
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Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> (2007-06-15 13:32) wrote:

>> What do people consider the correct behavior with distribution lists
>> to be? Should we look up each email address in them, add found
>> contacts to a new contact list if we find them, and create new
>> contacts and add them to the list if we don't?
>
> Sounds right.

Hrm. How many address books are we going to search for the contacts?

>> This will probably need to be Turba-specific, right? Not sure we can
>> handle this in a generic way.
>
> Why does it need to be generic?  The pine driver should probably be 
> moved to Turba anyway.  It doesn't handle generic "data" like the 
> other drivers in the Data package.

It doesn't have to be generic, I was just making sure it makes sense for
it _not_ to be.