The "pine-addrbk-tools" package was composed of the tools being present in the PINE original source from University of Washington and other non-UW tools. They deal with PINE addressbook files. (Sometimes these tools are also called "account conversion tools".) If you know of other similar tools that you'd like to be included in the package, please contact the packager. (The contact information can be found out by running rpm -q pine-utils --info on a system where the package is installed.) Alternatively, you can submit the information you have directly to UW PINE team at http://www.washington.edu/pine/ (there is a special section for non-UW products; again, the same URL could be found out by querying the RPM database on your system: rpm -q pine --info). IPLabs Linux Team http://www.linux.iplabs.ru/ This package includes following tools: Ready to use (are placed into the bin-dir): ------------ brk2pine A flter to convert personal mail (Berkeley) aliases in a .mailrc file into pine address book format. It is included in the original pine source tree from UW. elm2pine From: Klaus Wacker I wrote my own perl script, which I claim digests everything elm accepts and converts it into something pine accepts. Please tell me if you find otherwise. I intend to use this script regularly to keep system-wide aliases and addressbooks in synch. The source is available from http://www.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE/~wacker/elm-to-pine pine2Mutt The script was taken from Pine FAQ page (University of Washington). 11.8 How do I convert my Pine addressbook file to Mutt alias format? The resulting data (the mail aliases) will be saved in file "$HOME/.mutt.aliases"; to make mutt read them in on startup you must add this line to mutt's setup file: source $HOME/.mutt.aliases Q&A from Sven Guckes In fact, there is another similar tool for migrating from PINE to Mutt with a similar name: pine2mutt. Probably, it is more advanced. You can find it in a separate Mandrake's package called pine2mutt. ldif2pine ldif is the format used by Netscape for storing its address books. There is an original author's doc-file included in the package. It is identified as "freeware", it was taken at http://www.muc.de/~sam/pub/pine/ Another free program by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy that performs similar tasks can be found at http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9568/electronix/linux/nstopine.html; it looks less flexible in use than the included one (let alone the fact that it has some varying information compiled in), if you find otherwise, if it appears to be of some use to you, let the packager know. Needs configuring: ----------------- pwd2pine translate passwd to pine addressbook In order to configure, modify /etc/pwd2pine (the "configurable stuff" block). Taken from UW Pine source distribution (contrib). Author: Paul J Murphy Related tools (not included in the package): ------------------------------------------- an extract from FAQs: _________________________________________________________________ 11.7 How do I convert from Pine Address Book to/from the equivalents in Eudora, Netscape, Pegasus, ... ? Here are two solutions to this, both created by others: * Joseph Davidson has created a WWW site to perform conversion between the address book of Pine and a number of other address book/data file formats at: http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm * Johannes Becker (Johannes.Becker@hrz.uni-giessen.de) has a web-based addressbook converter available for general use at: http://www.uni-giessen.de/hrz/kommuni/ldap/a_book.shtml. He says that it "just converts between Netscape, Pegasus and Pine, but it's for free." _Please note that we have not tested either of these ourselves._ _________________________________________________________________