Ugly way to export contacts from Hotmail to Mdaemon
Very ugly way for exportation of contacts from Hotmail to Mdaemon, it will only export email addresses not the names respectively.
After you’ve exported your contacts from Hotmail and got your .CSV, run it through this to get the email addresses:
cat WLMContacts.txt |perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m/\b([A-Z0-9]+@[A-Z\.\-0-9]+\.[A-Z]+)\b/i' >> contacts.txt
Afterwards, run this to change format to Mdaemons XML.
<?php function uuidgen($len) { $uuid = ""; for($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) { $uuid .= dechex(rand(0,15)); } return $uuid; } $emails = file("contacts.txt"); foreach($emails as $email) { ?> <contact> <guid><![CDATA[<?=uuidgen(32)?>]]></guid> <modified<![CDATA[2010-01-01 00:00:00]]></modified> <fullName><![CDATA[<?=trim($email)?>]]></fullName> <email><![CDATA[<?=trim($email)?>]]></email> </contact> <?php } ?>
Don’t forget to add the remaining tags
Current starttag:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <addressBook version="9.5.4" encoding="utf-8">
Current endtag:
</addressBook>Name the file AddrBook.mrk and put inside users contact folder.
