The Address Book provides a convenient method and place to store contact
information for easy retrieval and use. It can provide a private address book as
well as access to public network directory services. It also supports
distribution lists so you can create your own mailing list.
This menu allows you to import to and export from your personal address book
(My Addressbook). It supports both CSV (Comma Seperated Variable), Outlook,
and vCard formats, as well as some other popular formats. To import an address
book, you need to have the address book information to import on your local
machine (on which the web browser is running).
To import an address book:
Open the Horde webmail address book you want to import
the information into.
Click on the Import/Export Icon.
Select the type of address
information data file you want to import from the selection list.
Click on the
browse button to open a file browser to navigate among the files on your computer
in order to locate the address data file.
Select the file, and click on the
Import botton. The information in the file will be imported into your address
book.
Some complex entries, or entries with fields that don't match the Horde
address book fields, may not import correctly, so you should verify the imported
data after an import. You can do this by going to the browse button. If you did not import successfully; delete your entries and start again.
Notes:
All address book entries in your local mail client should be consistent (everyone has the same fields, for instance Name, Email, Address, etc) and complete. No exta commas, periods or quotation marks.
If you are using Netscape or Mozilla as your email client; your Netscape/Mozilla address book will require alot of cleanup. You will see names like this:
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
objectclass: organizationalPerson
objectclass: inetOrgPerson
objectclass: mozillaAbPersonObsolete
When you export the address book from the email client; it will save as an ldif file. You can rename this file with an extension of
.csv and either open it with a text editor or excel, and delete these entries.
These are the fields Horde uses:
Name
Email
Title
Company
Home Phone
Work Phone
Mobile Phone
Fax
Home Address
Work Address
Notes
If you are adding a user to an address book manually, you can only add users to the address book called "My Addressbook" since the others are read-only.