[Users] Adding multiple email addresses to address book.

[Rolf Turner]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:40:54 +0000
Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:02:13 +1300
> Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> > I have a bunch of names and addresses stored in a text file,
> > something like:
> > 
> > clyde c1234 at gmail.com
> > irving drwho at um.edu
> > fred h2so4 at outlook.com
> > melvin M.Mingdinkler at unb.ca
> > 
> > There are around 50 such, so adding them one at a time would be
> > rather tedious.
> > 
> > The help talks about importing "LDIF" files into an address book,
> > but is there a way to import a plain text file?  Or might there be
> > a way to convert my plain text file into an LDIF file that I could
> > import?  
> 
> An LDIF file is just a text file, formatted in a particular way.
> 
> For your examples, it would look like
> 
> dn: cn=clyde
> mail: c1234 at gmail.com
> 
> dn: cn=irving
> mail: drwho at um.edu
> 
> dn: cn=fred
> mail: h2so4 at outlook.com
> 
> dn: cn=melvin
> mail: M.Mingdinkler at unb.ca
> 
> You could write a simple script to rewrite your plain text file into
> this format.
 
Thanks very much Dave.  I thought when I read your email that I was
home and hosed.  Unfortunately I'm still stuck.

I successfully wrote a script to convert my plain text file to the LDIF
format that you specified.  But after failing in my endeavours with this
"real" LDIF file, I went back to my toy example and created an LDIF
file (that I called "tryit.LDIF") by copying and pasting from your
email. I then went to:

    Tools -> Address book -> Tools -> Import LDIF file

I have attached screen shots of the successive pop-up windows that
appeared.

I filled in the "Address Book" field as "Tryit" and the "File Name"
field as "home/rolf/Desktop/tryit.LDIF".  (See window01.png.) I then
clicked on "Forward" and then on "Proceed" (see window02.png) and then
on "Close" (see window03.png).  Contrary to what the help file says,
there seemed to be no "Save" option.  Note that window03.png says that
the LDIF file was imported successfully.  However the new "Tryit"
address book that appeared was empty.

Clearly I am doing something wrong.  The fact that I don't get a "Save"
option is a bad sign.  However I'm damned if I can see just *what* I am
doing wrong.  Can you provide any guidance?

I have also attached my file "tryit.LDIF" in case you want to
experiment with it.

Thanks again for your help, and sorry to be a nuisance.  I'm probably
being an idiot as usual.

cheers,

Rolf

-- 
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
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