[Evolution] Autocompletion of contacts (when contact is not in addressbook)

[Ron Johnson]

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On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 12:00 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 15:46 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > I'm faced with this and I've seen MacOS do this.
> >=20
> > Eg: You have no addreses in your addressbook (just say)
> >=20
> > You have like a ton of mails in your inbox folder from 1000 different
> > email addresses.
> >=20
> > I want to know if it's possible to just create a new message, type an
> > arbitary address and then evo will automatically scan the addresses
> > already in the Inbox folder and prompt for selection?
> >=20
>=20
> That would be pretty cool, but no way to do so "out-of-the-box" that I'm
> aware of.

vcf is an open standard, isn't it?  If so, grep & shell, or maybe
perl or python could scan the mail folders, creating a big .vcf=20
file with all of the addresses in it.

Since .evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db is a
bdb file, it can be queried by perl/python so that duplicate addr-
esses won't get inserted.

Then, the .vcf can be imported into Evo.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it
is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows
peace."
Bernard M Baruch


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