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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com – I recently wanted to export my email address book from Sylpheed email client and import it into my Gmail account. Unfortunately, Gmail wants to import contact lists as CSV files, and there isn't an export-address-book-to-csv feature in the otherwise wonderful Sylpheed. Worse, the Sylpheed address book is in XML format, and XML-to-CSV conversion isn't straightforward. Warning: What follows contains code that may offend real programmers. The code works but it's pretty simple-minded, and if you're a real programmer and not a hobbyist hacker like me, you may not want to read any further. Category (General)

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Submitted by taskli on 07/20/2012 – Made popular on 07/20/2012

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Sylpheed, a simple, lightweight and easy-to-use e-mail client, which features an intuitive user-interface designed for keyboard-oriented use, is now at version 3.3.Sylpheed 3.3 is an update of the stable branch and packs quite a lot of new features and changes.

I want to export from address book in Mac OS X and import to the address book in Thunderbird mail in Ubuntu. I exported the contacts as vCards.vcf and imported it fine but now I just have 36 blank entries in the address book in Thunderbird.

I added my Gmail address book to evolution, but it gives my an error every time, even when choosing "use secure connection" in the address book options. The error is (I translated it on my own):

unable to open address book. This is because you entered a wrong URI or the server is unavailable at the moment.

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Any Mac users out there that can help me out.

Im on the latest version of the OSX and I am trying to add my gmail contacts so they sync with my address book. So When I try to add it under preferences as an exchange server it doesn't recognize the gmail server setting of "m.google.com" thats the one I use on my iPad and iPhone and it works but wont work on the OSX.

I have just installed Sylpheed as an email client and I cannot for some reason send email, only receive it; I have a hotmail account.

I get the following message:

Error Can't connect to SMTP server: smtp.live.com:25

I've searched the internet for a solution, and although I've seen that other Sylpheed users have had the same problem, I've yet to find a solution.

Sylpheed junk filters 45 weeks 6 days ago

Hello,

I'm using Sylpheed as my email client.

I'd like to use a junk filter, sylpheed offers 3 options (bsfilter/bogofilter/sylfilter) but short of compiling them myself I'm not sure there are any options open to me...

Does anyone know if this is correct ?

This is my first android phone, SPrint Galaxy Note 2. My Google Account thus the play store email address is not associated with any gmail email, and I do have a few gmail accounts I want to put in to the stock gmail app. Problem is when I try to start the stock gmail app, it wants to automatically attach to my Google Account email.

Can I delete the app and re-install?

When I press the contacts button it gives me the following error message

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This address book cannot be opened.

I'd like to use my gmail account connected via exchange activesync. I set that up with various email apps and it works nicely.

The only problem is that I don't use my gmail address as my known email address. I have an alias that points to gmail.