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Script to prepare a Thunderbird PAB export for gnokii to write to Nokia series 40

Posted 05-19-2011 at 03:47 AM by catkin
Updated 06-26-2011 at 09:40 AM by catkin (Version 0.2 of the script)

Tags address book, gnokii, nokia, series 40, thunderbird

Hello

Here's a script to prepare a Thunderbird Address Book LDIF export for gnokii --writephonebook to write to a Nokia Series 40. The usage is something like:

Code:

cat /tmp/TB.PAB.ldif \
  | prepare_ldif_for_gnokii.awk \
  1>/tmp/ldif.prepared \
  2>/tmp/prepare_ldif_for_gnokii.log
cat /tmp/ldif.prepared \
  | gnokii --writephonebook --overwrite --memory-type ME --ldif \
  2>/tmp/gnokii.stderr

The script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/awk

...

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Xubuntu 11.04 and contact management (2)

Posted 05-01-2011 at 06:58 AM by ricky_ds
Updated 05-01-2011 at 07:00 AM by ricky_ds

Tags contact management, gmail, thunderbird

Today I'm following up on my post from yesterday. So far, I have been unable to see any advantage of a standalone contact management client, such as Contacts, Rubrica and KAddressBook. The latter would be the right thing to use in a KDE-environment. Of course, if you click on an e-mail address within one of these address books, you will fire up your primary mail client. But the idea is to be able to use the addresses from within the mail client.

My mail client of choice being Thunderbird,...

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