Stan Goodman said the following on 07/05/2011 10:55 AM:
On 07/05/2011 02:52 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Stan Goodman said the following on 07/05/2011 07:19 AM:
How can I find what is bothering the utility and correct it? I had to deal with this last year.
It only imports ONE record.
Are you sure? Where is that written?
Its not. I found out by experimentation.
It turns the function into a toy.
Correct.
For a bunch of people as large and as vocal as Mozilla, it's a pitiable disappointment.
no, its the result of a single developer of the plugin.
My file has over 600 entries; I am not about to enter them one at a time. If there were a script to install successive record, or enugh information to enable writing one.....
If I recall correctly, I had about 400. I used some other mailer (on windows I think, perhaps Outlook) to import them and then (a windows version of Thunderbird or something) import then and then export them in Mozilla-native format (and hand carry via PCCard to the Linux machine) and import then into Thunderbird. That was with an earlier version of Thunderbird. YMMV now.
Before I made this attempt with Vcard, I tried with an .ldif file.
Ah, that seems familiar. I think that was the format I hand carried across.
but the address book function doesn't know how to handle some of the field that came from the Kaddressbook source.
Why doesn't this surprise me? It is why I turned to LDAP.
Thus for a contact's website is labeled work phone. Maybe I have to put up with that.
I thought there was a thing that let you control the mapping? No? Oh well.... I guess someone will say "this is Open Source, you can write your own". Well I _could_ build my own house and car and aeroplane. People do.
I'm not especially enamored of Thundermug; it's just that I am a refugee from Akonadi.
I don't find that difficult to accept. BTDT. I've tried deleting Akonadi but it keeps coming back. Freddy Kruger has nothing on Akonadi! -- "Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." - Theodor W. Adorno -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org