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Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> [2019-08-02 17:48]:
>> I have one email message with several .vcf file attachments.  Has orgmode
>> got any tool or tools I can use to import contacts from such a message
>> into an orgmode table?
>
> And by all means, I would never keep contact in Org file, that is for
> short list fine, but for any future planning, contacts shall be in a
> real database sorted by its lists.
>
> A list could be group of people, or account name, or company name, or
> organization, or interest lists.
>
> Neither bbdb nor Org is suitable for any serious collection of
> contacts. I have 192,000+ contacts, and when they are in database and
> I am using PostgreSQL, it gives me most of benefits, I can sort people
> into lists, groups, I can contact them, count interactions, open up
> their files, emails with a fast command, edit their data, add notes,
> send them faxes and SMS, maintain relations.

That sounds pretty intense. Have you written a separate package for
interacting with the database?