Contact Management: piping From/ Header to abook

[robert-winkler]

Hi, the abook integration of alot is great. This method is a lot faster than notmuch requests, and the contacts can be manually maintained. Basically, it is very easy to add a new address from command line:

'echo "From: Donald D. Duck <fette.ente@entenhouse.de>" | abook --add-email-quiet'

However, I tried simple :pipeto and some python scripts (bound to a key), for adding the Sender (From:) of an open email to the abook, but don't find a working solution. Has anyone managed such semi-automated contact management? Also code snipplets to get the header fields would be extremely helpful...

[robert-winkler]

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import os
import tempfile
import mimetypes
from email import policy
from email.parser import BytesParser

raw = sys.stdin.buffer.read()

msg = BytesParser(policy=policy.default).parsebytes(raw)

text = str(msg.get('From'))

myCmd = 'echo "From: ' + text + '"| abook --add-email-quiet'

print(myCmd)
os.system(myCmd)

does the job!

[lucc]

@robert-winkler if you want you can contribute and explain your abook "integration" in the wiki.

[pazz]

@robert: if you are using python anyway you might just as well define a hook and extract the existing Email object from the ui (see the wiki for many such examples) instead of calling pipeto..

Quoting Lucas Hoffmann (2021-04-17 10:04:49)

@robert-winkler if you want you can contribute and explain your abook "integration" in the wiki.

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[robert-winkler]

Thanks for your comments! I documented the hook in the wiki. @patrick (pazz): Yes, I should learn how to avoid the pipetos..; but I started with an example and once having a working code I don't touch it anymore.

Quoting Patrick Totzke (2021-04-18 04:36:40)

@robert: if you are using python anyway you might just as well define a hook and extract the existing Email object from the ui (see the wiki for many such examples) instead of calling pipeto..

Quoting Lucas Hoffmann (2021-04-17 10:04:49)

@robert-winkler if you want you can contribute and explain your abook "integration" in the wiki.

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