[ Jeremy Kitchen wrote on Mon 3.Sep'12 at 23:22:34 -0700 ] > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:01:48PM +0200, mimosinnet wrote: > > ... I don't know why my clock is so weird. It's definitely *not* 6pm in > +0200 right now... > > /me marks that as something to fix > > > I very much appreciate your suggestion! I was working with a large alias > > file, and what you suggest has much more sense. I did not came across > > $query_command (mutt is a constant discovery!), and I am going to > > explore this possibility a bit further. > > yea, I also keep finding new things with mutt. I've been trying to use > it for years, but now I've forced myself to use it as a daily driver and > it's been quite refreshing! > > > > Otherwise, great job! You should put this on github or similar so people > > > searching for something like this later will be able to find it easily! > > > > Thanks very much for the encouragement! I will try to put something > > together when I have worked a bit more on this. I have had a look at The > > Little Brother's Database (lbdb) http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/. The idea > > should be to deploy my google contacts into a some database (sqlite) > > and then access it with the appropriate query command. > > One thing I found out is on OSX if you are using icloud for your > contacts is that the local database of icloud contacts (the thing that > "Address Book" or "Contacts", depending which version of OSX you're > using) is stored in sqlite. > > I'm actually *not* using lbdb for my personal contacts, I found a script > on github which would do the searching for me. > > https://github.com/andrewlkho/icloud-addressbook-query > > I didn't like its handling of the Organization label on my contacts, so > I forked it and made a small change. It works very nicely, though. > > Here's the link to my fork, if you're interested: > > https://github.com/kitchen/icloud-addressbook-query > > Again, this is only for OSX/icloud, which is my primary address book! > > > Thanks! Cheers! > > Certainly! > > -Jeremy
Hi Jeremey, that's an interesting script as I use mutt on OS X Lion sometimes. I'll certainly try iy out. Thanks for making it available. Jamie
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