Add support for importing Pine distribution lists

See http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:10:07 +0000

See http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html#addrbook for file format. Basically, 'For a distribution list, the

is in the format: "("

, ... ")"' We simply ignore distribution lists at the moment (around line 146 of Data/tsv.php)

What do people consider the correct behavior with distributi

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:58:52 +0000

What do people consider the correct behavior with distribution lists to be? Should we look up each email address in them, add found contacts to a new contact list if we find them, and create new contacts and add them to the list if we don't? This will probably need to be Turba-specific, right? Not sure we can handle this in a generic way.

> What do people consider the correct behavior with distribu

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:20:49 +0000

> What do people consider the correct behavior with distribution lists > to be? Should we look up each email address in them, add found > contacts to a new contact list if we find them, and create new > contacts and add them to the list if we don't? Sounds right. > This will probably need to be Turba-specific, right? Not sure we can > handle this in a generic way. Why does it need to be generic? The pine driver should probably be moved to Turba anyway. It doesn't handle generic "data" like the other drivers in the Data package.

>> What do people consider the correct behavior with distrib

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:32:36 +0000

>> What do people consider the correct behavior with distribution lists >> to be? Should we look up each email address in them, add found >> contacts to a new contact list if we find them, and create new >> contacts and add them to the list if we don't? > > Sounds right. Hrm. How many address books are we going to search for the contacts? >> This will probably need to be Turba-specific, right? Not sure we can >> handle this in a generic way. > > Why does it need to be generic? The pine driver should probably be > moved to Turba anyway. It doesn't handle generic "data" like the > other drivers in the Data package. It doesn't have to be generic, I was just making sure it makes sense for it _not_ to be.

> Hrm. How many address books are we going to search for the

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:09:53 +0000

> Hrm. How many address books are we going to search for the contacts? Only the one you are importing to.

Works for me.

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:30:07 +0000

Works for me.