How do you efficently copy recipients from old email to create a new mail/conversation in Thunderbird?

I am specially interested in a solutions for Thunderbird. Currently I don’t know of any efficient way to copy the recipients from an old mail to start a new conversation. As there are currently many ways to do this I will illuminate some (to me most common strategies) and show why I feel those are … Read more

How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?

How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine? Answer An alternate way of importing your Google contacts is using pull_contacts.py. This script will: perform a GData query to retrieve all the contacts; and print them in alpine’s addressbook format. So, to add all of your Google contacts to the addressbook, simply: python pull_contacts.py aphacker@gmail.com … Read more

How to search Outlook Exchange Global Address List with Wildcards?

Our exchange GAL contains many group addresses, and it’s hard to find a certain group contains for example “ABC”. In the Contacts tab in outlook there is no option to search for a name that contains “ABC”, neither from Active Directory itself (Run: rundll32 dsquery.dll,OpenQueryWindow and tried the Advanced Search). I used “%ABC%” and “*ABC*”, … Read more