Evolution Address Book format

Bill Anderson bill at noreboots.com
Mon Nov 17 15:05:40 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:00, Gerry Tool wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:26, David Jansen wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:57:02AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> > > Evolution seems to store its contact information in a file called
> > > addressbook.db.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know a program that will access this information outside
> > > Evolution?  The .db extension suggests some database program.
> > > 
> > It is, evolution is linked against the Berkeley DB libraries (older version)
> > and to confirm:
> > 
> > $ file evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db
> > evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order)
> > 
> > So in principle berkely db utilities should be able to access the addressbook.
> > Haven't tried though...
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I did a man db and found information about
> dbopen.  Do you know of any applications/utilities that can be used to
> open such a database and access the table information?

www.python.org

Somewhere I've got a script I wrote once to suck data out of the
evolution contact db. No promises on if i can find it. :^)

> Is mysql useful for accessing .db files?

No.

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