Converting OS X AddressBook to KAddress? What is a goodemailer for KDE?

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 9:59 PM -1000 8/18/02, Angela Kahealani wrote:
>"Timothy A. Seufert" wrote:
>>  Apple's Mail program keeps mail in mbox format, understood by
>>  countless other programs.  (It has indexes and other info in some
>>  custom format, but the actual mail is kept in bog standard mbox
>>  files.)
>
>...and it splits the contents of "a mailbox" into several files,
>yes each in mbox format, but what Apple's Mail displays as
>"a mailbox", to be exported, has to be reconstructed from
>several files...
>multiply that by the number of "mailboxes" you have.

You are using Linux (or MacOS X).  This is not a big problem.

   cat "`find . -type f -name mbox`" >bigmbox

will find all files under the current directory and its tree of 
children with the name mbox, and concatenate their contents into a 
new file named bigmbox.  As the mbox format is very simple, just a 
bunch of messages in plain ASCII format, this suffices.

>>  As for Address Book, the 10.2 version has learned how to export in
>>  vcard format.  This may not help somebody with the 10.1 version (like
>>  the original poster), but tends to indicate that Apple felt the 10.1
>>  version was lacking in that department.
>
>10.1.5 only exported ONE vcard at a time,
>not the same as exporting "the addressbook".
>Does 10.2 version of Address Book export
>the entire addressbook as a set of vcards?
>or is it still limited to exporting manually tediously
>one vcard at a time?

Multiple selection (shift + click, command + click, or cmd-A) 
followed by export works.  I don't have 10.1 handy to see if it 
worked back then too.

-- 
Tim Seufert