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=== Links to information === | === Links to information === | ||
Some links to documentation or information about Mork | Some links to documentation or information about the Mork format: | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241438 The Bugzilla Bug], from which some of the above comments are taken. | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071229150643/http://bjf.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/software/20050429-mork.html The Hard Way], from which other comments above are taken. ''(archived)'' | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080201004840/http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt A brief primer] on the Mork text format. ''(archived)'' | |||
* The [http://vcard.mozdev.org/ Mozilla vCard Project], stalled since 2005. | |||
=== The Good News === | === The Good News === | ||
The good news is that the Thunderbird Address Book importers do a fairly good job of importing the well-documented, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDIF LDIF]] format. There also exist a web-based PHP script to [[http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/ Convert vCards to LDIF Format]]. I've dome some basic testing exporting vCards from the OS X Address Book, converting them to LDIF, then importing them into Thunderbird, and have not run into any serious problems, though [[http://qwiki.qualcomm.com/eudora/Data_Loss_Converting_Address_Book_Data some data is lost along the way.]] Thunderbird can also import from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values CSV]] format, though this process is not nearly as easy (from the user perspective) as importing from LDIF. | The good news is that the Thunderbird Address Book importers do a fairly good job of importing the well-documented, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDIF LDIF]] format. There also exist a web-based PHP script to [[http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/ Convert vCards to LDIF Format]]. I've dome some basic testing exporting vCards from the OS X Address Book, converting them to LDIF, then importing them into Thunderbird, and have not run into any serious problems, though [[http://qwiki.qualcomm.com/eudora/Data_Loss_Converting_Address_Book_Data some data is lost along the way.]] Thunderbird can also import from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values CSV]] format, though this process is not nearly as easy (from the user perspective) as importing from LDIF. | ||