72400 - [RFE] Import/Export Mozilla Address Books (also txt,ldif,csv)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

We *BADLY* need the ability to Import/Export Addressbooks.

Many have a PC at home and at work. There simply *must* be a way to get
addresses from one PC to another!

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

Confirming, changing summary from "Import/Export Addressbooks" to "[RFE]
Import/Export Mozilla Address Books" (as there already is an option to import
Address Books from other programs), setting Platform = All and severity to
Enhancement.

Comment 2

[Peter Lairo]

Ideally, this feature would include a *Merge* option, so as not to create
duplicate entries.

Comment 3

[Pratik]

Would this bug also encompass importing and synchronizing from a Palm Pilot?

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 104058 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[John Hardin]

duplicate of bug 52045?

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 108439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 60366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because there should be an easy way to move address books from
one profile to another, or one machine to another.

Comment 9

[esther]

marking 52045 a dup and including it's request to include export the
mozilla address book in these formats; ldif, csv, txt 

Comment 10

[esther]

*** Bug 52045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

reassigning to sspitzer.

Comment 12

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking, I've got a patch in my local tree for exporting to .csv or .tab (.txt) 
format.

it will be easy to extend to .ldif.

there are some open issues:  how to properly handle mailing lists (4.x didn't 
seem to do it right, either.) and how to handle all our new fields (work vs 
home).

Comment 13

[Ninoschka Baca]

Changing summary from "[RFE] Import/Export Mozilla Address Books" to "[RFE]
Import/Export Mozilla Address Books (also txt,ldif,csv)".

Comment 14

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

importing txt, tab, csv and ldif works and now exporting to txt tab and cvs now 
works.

the only piece missing is export to ldif.

exporting and importing to XML would also be interesting.

let's open up new bugs on that, since we can import and export addressbooks.

Comment 15

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> the only piece missing is export to ldif.

Filed bug 118957.

Comment 16

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-02-01-03: WinMe
Trunk build 2002-02-01-08: Linux RH 7.1
Trunk build 2002-01-01-08: Mac 10.1
Verified Fixed. 

Although I have a question on Mac 10.1, with the Export text dialog but I will 
address that in another bug.

Comment 17

[Mirek]

I do not want to be picky but "importing txt, tab, csv and ldif works" should read
"importing txt, tab, and csv works". LDIF import is not properly functioning
yet, see bug 62084. 

 

Comment 18

[Ninoschka Baca]

Also bug# 113780 which is marked nsbeta1+ which is good.

Comment 19

[Pierre Chanial]

Importing/exporting Mozilla/Netscape addressbooks is still not implemented.
(feature that was originally requested in this bug)
I filed bug 121725 for that purpose