Subject: Addressbook format

From: Laurie Cuthbert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 20:38:42 +0100 (BST)

I have an MSc student who will be starting her project in July. She wishes
to write software to convert between the different "addressbook" formats
used by the various mail user agents we have in the dept. The idea is that
someone should be able to use different MUAs on different machines without
having to manually update addressbook formats.

The coming question is obvious: is the format used in the pine addressbook
publicly available?

If she does produce anything of use (not always the case with MSc
students!!) I will quite happily make it generally available.

regards

Laurie Cuthbert

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 13:24:22 -0700 (PDT)

Yes, it's quite public and available.  It's documented in the Pine
Technical Notes that are distributed with Pine (There's lots of other
stuff in the Technical Notes too).  There's also a shell script to
convert from Berkeley .mailrc aliases to the Pine address book that's
distributed as part of Pine. 

LL

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From: "David L. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 14:12:56 -0700 (PDT)

The addressbook format is very simple.  A simple nickname is of the form

	nickname <tab> lastname [, firstname] <tab> address

and a distribution list is of the form

	listname <tab> name of list <tab> "(" list-of-names ")"

where list-of-names is a comma separated list of addresses and/or nicknames.

Also, I have been working on the addressbook issue a bit and I would be
happy to collaborate with your student on this project. 

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From: David Wall <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 15:08:50 -0700 (PDT)

We also have a program to convert between RICE mailer notebooks and the
Pine addressbook.  The author is Tom Remmers.  ([email-masked].)

--David Wall    Computing & Communications...Client Services  3-8491
                Univ. of Washington  HG-45   [email-masked]

On Mon, 24 May 1993, Laurence Lundblade wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 13:24:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
> To: Laurie Cuthbert <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Addressbook format
>

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From: Laurie Cuthbert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 08:19:38 +0100 (BST)

Thanks

> where list-of-names is a comma separated list of addresses and/or nicknames.

I'm sure she would be very happy to collaborate - but it's probably best
to wait until she has starteed to do the actual work.

Regards

Laurie Cuthbert

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From: Laurie Cuthbert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 08:17:28 +0100 (BST)

Thanks

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Wooff)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 11:09:24 +0100

> students!!) I will quite happily make it generally available.
End of insertion from Laurie Cuthbert
I wrote a very short and simple minded shell script for converting an
elm aliases.text file to a .addressbook. It is crude but works for me
and did what I wanted.

If anyone would like a copy then email me.

Chris