Re: [Abook-devel] How to manage groups/lists with abook?

[Carlos F. <car...@po...>]

Roger wrote:
> >* (Say I have a list with people to send holiday greetings, one  
> with  people
> >to invite to parties, one with people that share a certain hobby  –  
> these
> >lists will most probably overlap.)
> 
> So you want to tag people into multiple categories?  (ie. By
> 'send_holiday_greetings', 'party_people', ...)

Yes, "tagging" is a better word. Plus querying for tags.

> Either a separate text file, yes redundant, but still simple and I'll  
> bet dummy
> proof

I might end up doing this. If the names on the list match their  
corresponding abook entries, I can easily generate a list of up-to-date  
email addresses from it by looping over the names with "abook  
--mutt-query". Thank you for giving me this idea.

> Another probably better option, enter the custom field with your  
> standard tag
> item name (ie. holiday_cards, party_people, ...) and then use  
> awk/gawk to
> search for contacts having those tags.  Once a contact is found with  
> a matching
> tag name, selecting that contact and send to stdout.

Sounds good, but only as good as the best awk (or other) script I can  
come up with or find.

Carlos