Re: Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:22:39AM -0500, Patrice Levesque wrote: So, does everyone here use abook, or nothing, or just have all their E-Mail addresses in mutt aliases, or what? Any suggestions would be very welcome. If I found something that could synchronize my (any) phone as well

Re: Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-14 Thread Patrice Levesque
Yes, that's the way round I am really. I want a good/comfortable contacts manager for lots of reasons other than using it with mutt, being able to extract E-Mail addresses to mutt is just a bonus. I can't stress enough then that you *want* to build around a LDAP server; maybe Horde won't

Re: Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-13 Thread Patrice Levesque
So, does everyone here use abook, or nothing, or just have all their E-Mail addresses in mutt aliases, or what? Any suggestions would be very welcome. If I found something that could synchronize my (any) phone as well then I'd be *very* happy! :-) My current setup does just that.

Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-10 Thread Chris Green
I currently use the Evolution Contacts list for contacts, with a Python script that I have written to extract E-Mail addresses to mutt (via Ctrl-T etc.). I'm getting fed up with Evolution's slowness, crap user interface and non-standard storage format so I'm looking for alternatives, so far I've

Re: Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-10 Thread Tim Gray
On Dec 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM +, Chris Green wrote: So, does everyone here use abook, or nothing, or just have all their E-Mail addresses in mutt aliases, or what? Any suggestions would be very welcome. This isn't going to be very useful to you since you are using Linux and I'm on OS X,

Re: Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-10 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:25:28AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: On Dec 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM +, Chris Green wrote: So, does everyone here use abook, or nothing, or just have all their E-Mail addresses in mutt aliases, or what? Any suggestions would be very welcome. This isn't going to be very

Re: Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-10 Thread Brendan Cully
On Saturday, 10 December 2011 at 17:38, Chris Green wrote: No, doesn't sound very complex, what I need is the equivalent of that Address Book program you're using. There's also goobook (which could easily be wired into lbdb) for synchronizing everything with google contacts. It'll let you sync

Re: Address Book/Contacts utilities that work (well) with mutt - what's out there?

2011-12-10 Thread Tim Gray
On Dec 10, 2011 at 05:38 PM +, Chris Green wrote: lbdb is good to know about, thank you. It means that I can choose almost any program for my address book and can link it to mutt. lbdb is the glue which makes it all happen really. It's a great program.