[horde] Import of contacts with multiple email addresses

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Thu Mar 23 16:10:52 UTC 2017


Quoting Benedikt Bäumle <baeumle at dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de>:

> Hi Horde-Team,
>
> we will soon have to import a lot of contact data from exchange  
> (vcard format) to horde and couldn't figure out to import contacts  
> with multiple email addresses.
>
> We managed to add custom address fields to our horde installation  
> using the following tutorial:
>
> https://monotok.org/add-custom-fields-horde-5-turba/
>
> So we now have three fields for email ( 'Email', 'Home Email', 'Work  
> Email' ). But we have no idea how to configure the import to use all  
> of the three fields. Currently just the 'EMAIL'-line in our vcard  
> contacts are imported and the other email addresses are lost. Is it  
> somehow possible?
>
> An example vcard contact could look like this:
>
> -------------------------------------- VCARD  
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> BEGIN:VCARD
> FN:Test\, Mister
> N:Test;Mister;;;
> EMAIL:test at test.com
> HOMEEMAIL:test.test at test.de
> WORKEMAIL:test at test.de
> BDAY:1999-01-01T22:00:00Z
> ADR;TYPE=home:;;Mister Test\nBananastreet 4b;Bananatown;;12345;Bananaland
> LABEL;TYPE=home:Mister Test\nBananastreet 4b\n\n12345 Bananatown\nBananaland
> TEL;TYPE=work,voice:+49 123456789
> TEL;TYPE=home,voice:+49 1234 56789
> TEL;TYPE=cell,voice:+49 176123456789
> TITLE:Research Associate
> ORG:University of Bananatown
> VERSION: 3.0
> END:VCARD
>
> -------------------------------------- VCARD END  
> --------------------------------------------------


What generated that vcard? The various email types should be specified  
with a TYPE parameter. E.g.,

EMAIL;TYPE=work:test at test.de

> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Benedikt
>
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