2 ABOOK by JH <jheinonen@users.sourceforge.net>
5 Abook is an addressbook program with mutt mail client support.
9 To compile abook you must have ncurses developement libraries installed.
10 Starting from version 0.4.10 abook is known to compile with the native curses
11 library of SUN Solaris and OpenBSD. Since version 0.5.0 GNU readline is
12 required. Please note that other readline implementations don't work.
14 If you compile with --enable-debug flag you should redirect standard error
15 to somewhere. (for example abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null) Abook has
16 been compiled and tested successfully on following platforms:
17 (NOTE: All versions of abook haven't been tested on all platforms.)
19 Linux (Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat Linux, all other distributions with GNU ncurses
20 and GNU readline should work)
34 See INSTALL for detailed instructions.
36 If you want to use abook with mutt you should add following lines to your
37 ~/.muttrc or to the systemwide /etc/Muttrc file.
39 set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
40 macro pager A |'abook --add-email'\n
42 After this you can make queries from mutt using the query command ('Q')
43 and add sender e-mail addresses to the addressbook from pager using 'A'
44 command. (Of course you can choose another keybinding if you like.)
46 It's also recommeded to set pipe_decode variable in mutt configuration.
47 See the mutt manual for details.
49 UPGRADING FROM VERSION 0.4
51 You must import your abook 0.4 addressbook file because it is stored
52 to a different location. Configuration file is now located to $HOME/.abook/
53 directory and it's called abookrc . (without leading dot)
57 If your language specific characters don't work correctly make sure
58 that your locale configuration has been done properly. (On Linux you
59 must set at least LC_CTYPE environment variable)
61 If you want to import a ldif file generated by abook in Netscape you
62 must use the extension ``.4ld''.
66 Get the latest version from http://abook.sourceforge.net/
70 All files in this distribution are released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
71 See COPYING for details.
75 Send bugreports, fixes, wishes etc. to Jaakko Heinonen
76 <jheinonen@users.sourceforge.net> or use the mailing list.