On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:00, Gerry Tool wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:26, David Jansen wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:57:02AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote: > > > Evolution seems to store its contact information in a file called > > > addressbook.db. > > > > > > Does anyone know a program that will access this information outside > > > Evolution? The .db extension suggests some database program. > > > > > It is, evolution is linked against the Berkeley DB libraries (older version) > > and to confirm: > > > > $ file evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db > > evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order) > > > > So in principle berkely db utilities should be able to access the addressbook. > > Haven't tried though... > > Thanks for your reply. I did a man db and found information about > dbopen. Do you know of any applications/utilities that can be used to > open such a database and access the table information? www.python.org Somewhere I've got a script I wrote once to suck data out of the evolution contact db. No promises on if i can find it. :^) > Is mysql useful for accessing .db files? No. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
