Import Contacts

[christopherfink]

A contact import would be very useful. I'm not sure of the main contact export file structures, but getting at least an "import from Outlook" or Gmail function would be great.

I wouldn't mind writing the PHP to parse the contact files for the various export types; this is one of the best projects I've found in a long time, and I'd love to contribute. Let me know if you're interested.

[nobody]

Logged In: NO 

and from the little fuzzy webmail too?

[nik]

It would be great if one could drag and drop vCards into the address book as well

[offwhite]

I do not know about dragging a vCard into the address book, but you certainly upload a vCard into RoundCube.

[thomasb]

Moved to later. Address book redesign has to be done first.

[doogie]

Here is a workflow how to import your Addressbook contacts into Roundcube:

1) Export your contacts into a CSV file If you can only export into vCards (as from MacMail?) then you can convert your vCards to a CSV file e.g. with this webtool. http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/

2) Inside your CSV file you need at least the columns: firstname, surename, name, email

3) import this with phpMyAdmin

Go to the table "contacts" in the database "roundcube" (or whatever you named it). Import format CSV, In the field “column names” enter the name of the columns in same order as inside your csv file e.g. “firstname, surename, name, email”

after a successfull import you might want to run the following SQL on the table roundcube.contacts

update contacts set user_id = 1, changed = NOW()

(user_id is your roundcube user_id from table roundcube.users)

[seansan]

patch: http://roundcubeforum.net/forum/index.php?topic=2371.0

[thomasb]

New patch in forum: http://www.roundcubeforum.net/showthread.php?t=2281

[thomasb]

Implemented vCard import in r1716. CSV import will follow...