Script to prepare Thunderbird LDIF for gnokii (was writephonebook, LDIF: "Data format is not valid" error)

[Charles]

On 13/05/11 23:02, Charles wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:15 +0200
> > From: Daniele Forsi <address@hidden>
> > To: "Discussion forum for gnokii users." <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: writephonebook, LDIF: "Data format is not valid" error
> > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> >
> > no, the problem is that --writephonebook always returns error at EOF
> > for ldif and vcard
> >
> > > BTW I also manually removed a long "description::" line from the 
> > input file because it resulted in gnokii error "utf8_decode/iconv: 
> > Argument list too long". ?What is the limit? ?Is it still 61 from
> > > #define GN_PHONEBOOK_NAME_MAX_LENGTH ? ? ? ? ? ?61 ? /* For 6510 */
> >
> > yes, but I guess we could raise this limit at least for Series 40 3rd
> > and later, maybe using PM_EXTPBK2 also for this
> >
> > --
> > Daniele Forsi
>
> Thanks Daniele :-)
>
> OK -- I'll ignore the error and program the "filter TB ldif for 
> gnokii" script to truncate description fields to 61 characters.
>
> Can the ldif postal address information be manipulated so gnokii will 
> load it to the phone?  A sample from the TB ldif looks like:
>
> l: Auroville
> st: Tamil Nadu
> postalCode: 605101
> c: India
>
> Best
>
> Charles
Hello

A script to prepare a Thunderbird Address Book LDIF export for gnokii 
--writephonebook to write to a Nokia Series 40 is posted on my blog at 
(sorry for wrapping)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/catkin-444761/script-to-prepare-a-thunderbird-pab-export-for-gnokii-to-write-to-nokia-series-40-3832/


Best

Charles