Subject: mailing lists

From: [email-masked] (Jeff L Jernegan)
Date: 8 Aug 1995 22:10:15 -0700

I've been lurking watching for an answer to an oft-asked question:

How do you import a list of internet addresses into a Pine Addressbook 
"distribution list" without retyping them all?

Come on, _SOMEONE_ must have the answer...!

Thanks!

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Jeff Jernegan
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:28:18 +0100 (BST)

I did it by using Pine to create a minimal addressbook containing a 
couple of single entries, and a couple of distribution list entries.

Then I looked at the resulting ".addressbook" file in my UNIX home 
directory and guessed the format of the file.  (It is *very* 
straightforward!)

Then, because I only had relatively few addresses in my previous mail 
utility's list, took a copy of the file and edited it into the right 
form.  For more I'd have probably knocked up a little script to do it.

You don't say what mailer your previous address book is for, but if it's 
Elm then there is already a conversion script available called something 
like "elm2pine".  (Perhaps someone can say where to find it?  I did a 
quick check of ftp.cac.washington.edu, but couldn't spot it)

There's also a shell script within the Pine distribution for converting 
.mailrc addresses into a Pine addressbook:

	contrib/utils/brk2pine.sh

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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