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To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
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I have about 80 contacts so this is a personal contacts situation not a
business contacts situation.

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Jean Louis wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 12:02:36
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [O] exported contacts problem
>
> * 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.
>
> Jean
>

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