This manual page documents briefly the
abook program.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
abook is a text-based address book program. It contains Name, Email, Address
and various Phone fields. It is designed for use with mutt, but can be
equally useful on its own.
OPTIONS
-h --help
Show usage.
-C --config<filename>
Use an alternative configuration file (default is $HOME/.abook/abookrc).
--datafile<filename>
Use an alternative addressbook file (default is $HOME/.abook/addressbook).
--mutt-query<string>
Make a query for mutt (search the addressbook for <string>).
The --datafile option, as documented above, may be used
BEFORE this option to search a different addressbook file.
Converts <inputfile> in <inputformat> to <outputfile> in <outputformat>
(defaults are abook, stdin, text and stdout).
The following inputformats are supported:
- abook abook native format
- ldif ldif / Netscape addressbook
- mutt mutt alias
- pine pine addressbook
- csv comma separated values
The following outputformats are supported:
- abook abook native format
- ldif ldif / Netscape addressbook (.4ld)
- mutt mutt alias
- html html document
- pine pine addressbook
- gcrd GnomeCard (VCard) addressbook
- csv comma separated values
- palmcsv Palm comma separated values
- elm elm alias
- text plain text
- spruce Spruce address book
--add-email
Read an e-mail message from stdin and add the sender to the addressbook.
