From: Colin Watson Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:07:41 +0000 (+0100) Subject: New address book: Postscript X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=865343511b869a63fc40b434119a3ae95e1d419f;p=blog.git New address book: Postscript --- diff --git a/content/new-address-book.md b/content/new-address-book.md index 830b9d4d..0df61231 100644 --- a/content/new-address-book.md +++ b/content/new-address-book.md @@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ contacts from the `khard` end. I've tried adding one address from `~/.mutt/aliases` using `khard` and it seems to at least minimally work for me, but I haven't explored this very much yet. +I had to install python3-vobject 0.9.4.1-1 from experimental to fix +[eventable/vobject#39](https://github.com/eventable/vobject/issues/39) +saving certain vCard files. + Finally, `mutt` integration. I already had `set query_command="lbdbq '%s'"` in `~/.muttrc`, and I wanted to keep that in place since I still wanted to use LDAP querying as well. I had to write a very small amount of code for @@ -256,3 +260,14 @@ Overall this feels like a big improvement! It wasn't a trivial amount of setup for just me, but it means I have both better usability for myself and more independence from proprietary services, and I think I can add extra users with much less effort if I need to. + +## Postscript + +A day later and I've consolidated all my accounts from Google Contacts and +`~/.mutt/aliases` into the new system, with the exception of one group that +I had defined as a `mutt` alias and need to work out what to do with. This +all went smoothly. + +I've filed the new `lbdb` module as +[#866178](https://bugs.debian.org/866178), and the `python3-vobject` bug as +[#866181](https://bugs.debian.org/866181).