* Peter P. <[email protected]> [10-15-15 18:28]:
> * Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> [2015-10-15 18:04]:
> > * Peter P. <[email protected]> [10-15-15 16:30]:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > please excuse me if this is slightly offtopic, nevertheless this seems a
> > > propoer community to ask.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if/how I can export an abook data file to a format that
> > > can be merged with lbdb's m_inmail.list file?
> >
> > lbdb can read abook, /usr/lib64/lbdb/m_abook
> >
> > I believe if configured that it will automatically include abook addresses
> > and will provide them when queried.
>
> Thank you, this is what I am already doing successfully. I would just
> like to uninstall abook altogether (I am not using it really) and rely
> only on lbdb, hence I would like to import/merge abook's datafile into
> ~/.lbdb/m_inmail.list
lbdbq > m_inmail.list.new
cat m_inmail.list > m_inmail.list.new
sort m_inmail.list.new | sort | uniq > m_inmail.list.new2
inspect m_inmail.list.new2
If satisfied, mv m_inmail.list m_inmail.list.old
mv m_inmail.list.new2 m_inmail.list
When happy with new list, rm m_inmail.list.old
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