[SLL] address book / rolodex?

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:24:20 -0800
Clifford Snow <jcs at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

> I use Evolution, but it doesn't have a simple method to extract the
> data as plain text.  You can create a vcard from a list of contacts.
> With the ability to add tags to contacts, you can search on contacts
> with the desired tag to produce mailing lists.  
> 
> I'm guessing that someone has written a script to convert from vcard
> to plain text. 

Since Evolution uses evolution-data-server to store this stuff, there
is surely a way to get a dump of it in plain text.

If you don't want to use the heavy Evolution interface, there is
"contacts" which is a simple gui that will interact with your
evolution-data-server to read/input contacts.

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