Wish I’d known that when I did the conversion.

rpm -ql evolution|grep export

It’s in a libexec directory, so it isn’t in a normal $PATH. It doesn’t have a man page, but running it without arguments spits out usage info.

I use it to export the Evo address book data in CSV format, then bring that into OOo to move the columns around so it matches up with the order T-Bird wants. The T-bird CSV import dialog will show you the order. If I remember, there may be columns Evo uses that T-bird doesn’t, or the other way around.

The other advantage to opening the data in OOo allows you to quickly scan the data and prune out cruft.

HTH

Chasd.

I lasted almost 2 months this time out, which is a record.

The things that made me give up…AGAIN:

The thing where you get a notice of an incoming email–you see a big bold (1) in your mailbox, but nothing will appear in your messages list (workaround: quit, do killev, erase ~/.evolution, and re-launch).

The thing where it won’t connect to your mail server for some reason (workaround: delete the account, muck around for AGES deleting key after key after key with gconftool, and re-create the account).

The thing where you’re having a quiet afternoon, and somebody asks you if you’ve read their email, so you quit and re-launch Evolution, and there are a dozen new emails starting from mid-morning to the present.

The thing where somebody sends an email saying, “I’ve highlighted the important items in red” — which Evolution helpfully converts to black.

So….

I, too, am back using Thunderbird. I have to use a web client and copy and paste to add things to an addressbook (welcome back to the 12th century), but Evolution’s just too unreliable to use for work.

It is a shame they don’t have a common address book format though, but to be fair I’m not sure if Thunderbird ought to be able to import vcard format or whether Evolution ought to export in ldif format — I’ve no idea which format is best.