[turba] tsv (tab separated values), pine and mulberry address
support
Liam Hoekenga
liamr@umich.edu
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:08:50 -0400
Pine 4.44 appears to support exporting as vcards, which helps w/ the group
entries, and the single entries flowing across multiple lines... but it still
allows email addresses like the ones below. A vcard entry w/ an email address
like:
EMAIL:"J. User" <juser@example.com>
ends up in IMP's message headers looking like:
"J. User" <"\"J. User\" <juser"@example.com>>
if you retrieve the entry from your addressbook. So tho I may have wasted time
trying to impliment a native pine addressbook importer, I think I may have
identified something that needs fixing address handling wise. :\
Liam
> - pine does stupid things when it writes it's addressbook - hence the reason
> I
> couldn't use fgetcsv to handle importing data. A line in a pine addressbook
>
> might look like...
>
> liamr Hoekenga, Liam "Liam R Hoekenga" <liamr@umich.edu>
>
> where the quoted string is actually part of pine's email address field.
> I think that'll need to get parsed (using imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist?)
>
> Pine also creates entries that look like this:
> liamr Hoekenga, Liam
> "Liam R Hoekenga, BA Linguistics, University of Michigan"
> <liamr@umich.edu>