Re: importing address book

[Rob Benson <rbenson ihl state ms us>]

I did do the export, and after opening it in StarCalc (the StarOffice
spreadsheet program) saved it as a .dbf file.  Then I transfered the file to my
database directory.  And now I can see it as a table in my address book.

But when I try to use the email function of StarOffice, I am returned an error
- invalid argument, or something like that.  If I wanted to take the time, I
could input all of the 100 plus addresses into the "address" table, and then I
suspect it would work fine.  But StarOffice has no simple way to import the
Outlook addresses into it's default addressbook and it can't see my rigged
version.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Jim Armstrong wrote:
> I assume you exported your Outlook address book to a CSV or Tab Separated
> text file.
> 
> Is there no import facility for that format?  Or for a format exportable by
> the StarOffice spreadsheet? If the problem is in the file format properties,
> I suggest you try "UltraEdit"
> http://www.idmcomp.com
> which is a GREAT windows based shareware HEX/text editor, and will allow you
> to convert easily to UNIX file format as well as edit in any way you want.
> You can even directly edit UNIX files via ftp connection without doing file
> transfer first.
> 
> Jim A
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Benson <rbenson ihl state ms us>
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:31 AM
> Subject: re: Retrieving mail from exchange server
> 
> 
> >A quick note: StarOffice does have calendaring functions like outlook.  It
> can
> >be downloaded free at www.sun.com
> >
> >On a related note: does anyone know of an e-mail program that will let me
> >import my Outlook addresses?  StarOffice makes you do several contortions
> and
> >then doesn't bring it up as an address book, just a spreadsheet.
> >
> >On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Tom Cooper wrote:
> >> IMAP will give you the capability of pulling email from your exchange
> server.
> >> Applications that suppport IMAP include:
> >> Netscape Messenger and StarOffice
> >>
> >> BTW - email works ok, but you don't get the address book, or calendaring
> >> functions that you get with Outlook.
> >>
> >> Netscape is included with RH6.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >> R,
> >> Tom
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: Greenidge, Kevin [SMTP:KevinG baylordallas edu]
> >> >Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 9:18 AM
> >> >To: 'redhat-install-list redhat com'
> >> >Subject: Retrieving mail from exchange server
> >> >
> >> >Is there a mail client in RH6.0 or for  Linux in general that can
> retrieve
> >> >mail from an exchange server? I thought I read this somewhere but I'm
> not so
> >> >sure now.
> >> >
> >> >
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