Subject: Conversion between mail alias file formats (Pine, Eudora ...)?

From: [email-masked] (Aron Roberts)
Date: 21 Oct 1994 21:47:13 GMT

Two recent postings to the comp.mail.pine newsgroup asked about the
availability of converters between Pine Address Books and the e-mail
address 'alias' files used by other mail programs.

  (In these instances, the question specifically concern conversion
between the Pine .addressbook format and the mail alias file formats used
by elm and /bin/mail).

  We're in a related situation:  we're supporting and distributing the
freeware versions of Eudora for the Macintosh and MS-Windows, and would
like to make conversion utilities available to our campus community that
would enable them to easily convert their mail aliases files between Pine
(which is widely used on our shared UNIX systems here) and Eudora.

  We're willing to write our own utilities for this purpose, but don't
want to 're-invent the wheel'.  So we're asking the participants of this
group:  do you know of pointers to existing scripts/source code for
converting these mail alias file formats?

In article <[email-masked]>, markstep
<[email-masked]> wrote:

> Does anyone out there have a converter that will allow one to convert the
> pine .addressbook file into .mailrc format?
> would be greatly appreciated.

And in article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
(walter piovesan) wrote:

>    I would like to hold on to some of my elm features for a while yet., so
> I have pretty well been able to keep the two mail systems in tandem (mail
> folders etc). I have not been able to have pine read my elm aliase.text
> (an address book)...has anyone managed this??

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Beckley)
Date: 23 Oct 94 07:43:27 GMT

>(which is widely used on our shared UNIX systems here) and Eudora.

For what it's worth, both PC and Mac Eudora support the .mailrc format.  I
don't know Pine's .addressbook format, but I would imagine that there's
probably some conversion routines to .mailrc, since .mailrc is so common.

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