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On Friday, September 12 at 12:26 AM, quoth Christopher Lemire:
> I've got over 100 emails in my address book from the gmail web
> interface. I can export it to three formats,
>
> Google's CSV format (for importing into another Google account).
> Outlook's CSV format (for importing into Outlook or other applications).
> vCard format (for importing into Address Book or other applications).
>
> How can I generate a mutt aliases with one of those or is there a better
> way with so many emails?
Well, I don't know what their CSV format looks like exactly, but it
should be pretty trivial to turn into a mutt aliases file.
Assuming that it looks something like this:
nickname,first,last,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then you can do this:
awk -F, '{print "alias",$1,$2,$3,"<"$4">"}' google.csv > .mutt_aliases
And that will chug through *millions* of addresses with ease.
Of course, your awk command will be different if Google's output CSV
is somewhat different.
If Google's output doesn't include a useful nickname, then you're
going to have to come up with a way of generating nicknames that are
useful to you...
Does that help?
~Kyle
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-- Oscar Wilde
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