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MindFuq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed abook. How can you folks stand it? It's so ugly
> the way it tries to be graphical.
I don't actually remember why I installed abook in the first place,
and why I put all the email addresses there; why not just aliases.
Ah well, anyway -- I don't have to watch abook very much, as all I
normally do is pressing 'A' to save the current mail's address for
future use and '^T' when composing mail to use $query_command. And
maybe it's ugly, so what... what matters, is that you can safely
save the email addresses you want to remember to its database.
> Furthermore, it doesn't support categories; so my friends have to be
> listed next to my coworkers and vendors.
Oh well, I haven't ever even thought of this; I just have my mailing
list addresses in the top, then one "fake" address ("-------") as
"delimiter" and then private email addresses. I guess you are right
about this, but you could separate your friends from your coworkers
and vendors _manually_. It probably would look even uglier, but
indeed, this kind of feature is lacking abook. Although, I guess it
haven't even been developed to be full-blown business address book...
> Anyway, (hope no one is offended), what alternatives are there to
> abook? I would most like to find something that's interoperable
> between a palm and mutt, which probably doesn't exist. But what
> about something that can import CSV or ABA formatted address books,
> and export a mutt alias file?
I actually don't know what other stuff there's out there. This article
of main was mostly MO and my experiences with abook. And so far I
haven't had any reason to use any other address book than abook; I
guess that I would've, if I've ran to good one. Although, I would be
quite satisfied even with Mutt's aliases, so my need for a good
address book isn't very high. :-)
I'm sorry I cannot help you, but I'm again in one of my rant moods...
> What do you non-abook users use? I don't care if it's textual or
> graphical.
I would be interested too; what other, free (non-)graphical address
books there would be available for testing? Something, that could
server the purpose of a "real" address book, as well (oh well, abook
can do this too, but in this case I mean GUI-software), so that I
could save phonennumbers, addresses, email addresses, URLs and whatnot
in an easily usable software.
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Jussi Ekholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://erppimaa.ihku.org/> | <0x1410081E>
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