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2005 October 23

Address Book: Mac to Yahoo! (Modified)

I modified the aforementioned AppleScript that exports Mac Address Book contacts to a file that can be imported by the Yahoo! Address Book. The changed script works differently in the following ways.

  • If there is no home email address then the first address of any kind is used for the primary email address in Yahoo! The alternative Yahoo! email addresses are the first two Mac addresses that are not the primary one.
  • Mac Groups become Distribution Lists in Yahoo! since these two types of data serve the same purpose and have the same relationship to contacts. A contact can be in more than one Mac Group and in more than one Yahoo! Distribution List. One can send email to everyone in a list in either system. All contacts are put into the “Unfiled” Yahoo! Category. (Companies could be separated from people—a project for another time.)

Posted by Hank at 7:41 PM

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