[imp] mass addressbook imports?

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Jul 20 14:29:51 PDT 2005


Zitat von Kevin Konowalec <kevin at ualberta.net>:

> But how can you do that if the users haven't logged in once before  
> and thus defined their records in the database?

Why would you need the users to have logged in already?

> On Jul 20, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
>> Zitat von Kevin Konowalec <kevin at ualberta.net>:
>>
>>
>>> We're trying to migrate from Infinite (Captaris) webmail (or Mobile
>>> Delivery if you like) and we need to migrate all the address books
>>> over to the new system.  Once we figure out how to massage the data
>>> into CSV files is there a way to import the data into imp's personal
>>> address book on a per-user basis?  We use Cyrus IMAP and user
>>> accounts are generated on the fly... would it make sense to maybe
>>> have a first-login hook that would check a common directory for a csv
>>> file with the user's name on it and import it automatically?  Or is
>>> there a better way to do it?
>>>
>>
>> I would import all address books before you let the users in. There's
>> no reason to further complicate it with hooks.
>>
>> Jan.
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Jan.

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