Package abook-0.5.6-1002

Designed for use with mutt, abook can also be used on its own. It can import from ldif, mutt alias, Pine address book and export to ldif, Pine address book, html, mutt alias, GnomeCard addressbook, elm alias, plain text and Spruce address book. It supports i18n enconding.

For help, use the question mark inside abook. Numbers are used to access a given field while editing a contact. To cycle through fields, use h. See the man page abook (1) for details. When importing a file, be aware that shortcut for home directory is not recognized, but good news, spaces in filenames are recognized. There is an optional sample.abookrc file in /sw/share/doc/abook. If you want to use/customize it, copy it to $(HOME)/.abook/ and rename it abookrc. See the man page abookrc (5) for details. For launching url, default browser is lynx, but you can define it in abookrc as open to launch your preferred Mac OS X browser. See the README file in /sw/share/doc/abook to customize your $(HOME)/.muttrc file so that you can request an email address from abook. See also the FAQ in /sw/share/doc/abook for encoding conversion.