# Address Book Configuration

À compléter.

# Type du carnet d'adresses

Vous pouvez choisir entre plusieurs types de carnet d'adresses.

# Carnet d'adresses externe

The Balsa addressbook supports input from programs. Thus, you can use (no importing needed!) for example your pine or mutt addressbook. The mutt mailer (www.mutt.org) uses an identical system to retrieve addresses from programs.

## Programmes existants

The following programs are compatible with the mutt mail reader and should be with Balsa. Submit links to more programs.

http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/ - The little brother database. Read emailaddresses and names from: finger, /etc/passwd, incoming procmail email, NIS, fido, the abook program, mutt addressbook, pine addressbook, palm addressbook, gnomecard addressbook, big brother database, ldap database.

http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/mutt/ - palm address database, ldapsearch wrapper, ph/qi server, UIUC, ph.

## Écriture de vos propres scripts de chargement

Balsa ignores the first line of output from your program. You might want to write comments or debug output on this line. The remaining lines should have this format:

e-mail address full name nickname

The three fields should be separated by tabs. The third field is currently not used by Balsa, but might be in the future. It is also kept to ensure compatibility with mutt.

Balsa executes your script with one argument: the pattern to search for. A space (“ ”) is used as the first argument when creating a list of all users.

Tous les caractères sont admis, excepté la tabulation (\t), qui est le séparateur de champs.

Un exemple de sortie peut être :

lbdbq: 3 matches

balsa-list@gnome.org Balsa List balsa-list

jelmer@nl.linux.org Jelmer Vernooij jelmer

balsa-maintainer@theochem.kth.se Pawel Salek balsa-maintainer

Your script/program should write its output to stdout and not to stderr!

## Écriture de vos propres scripts de sauvegarde

Ajouter des adresses est possible. Votre script doit recevoir trois paramètres. Le premier est une adresse électronique, le second un nom complet et le troisième un alias (non utilisé pour le moment et remplacé par « TODO »).

Notez que mutt ne prend pas en charge l'ajout d'adresses et qu'il n'y a donc pas de compatibilité dans ce cas.

Comments are welcome: jelmer@nl.linux.org