on 1/27/03 2:41 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Benjamin Smith writes:
>
>> What's the easiest way (short of re-typing) to inport an Outlook address book
>> into SQWebmail (or synch?)
>
> sqwebmail's address book is a plain text file, with a rather simple, obvious
> format.
>
> If you can manage to get your Outlook to spit out the address book in some
> semi-parsable plain text file, a Perl script should be able to do the rest.
In Outlook Express for Macintosh, the method I have used for generating the
plain text file as input is:
(1) select the entire content of your address book
(2) click the New Message To button
(3) Save the message so it appears in Drafts (required for step 4)
(4) select View Source
The last step gives you a window you can copy/paste from which looks like:
User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.3
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:30:40 -0800
Subject: <no subject>
From: Kurt Bigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
The details for Outlook are probably different, but with any luck you can do
it there too.
But I wish it were even easier! And I would like to provide a way that any
with an account on my server could do this, by just sending the message like
the one above to some special email address. But getting off-topic here.
-Kurt Bigler
