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Addressbook2pine is a utility that allows you to sync your OS X address book with pine's addressbook. Simply launch addressbook2pine and it will process all of your contacts in your address book and create a tab delimited file readable by pine.

The resulting pine .addressbook file will contain the following values for each field:

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| Pine:     | OS X Address Book                               |
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| Nickname  | Company, Group, Phone, Birthday, Nickname,      |
|           | First Name, Last Name, First & Last name,       |
|           | or blank + optional unique id and optional      |
|           | email id.                                       |
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| Fullname  | Full name (First, Middle, Last, and Suffix)     |
|           | + optional email id.                            |
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| Fcc       | Global fcc path + Contact's Group, Email, or    |
|           | Full Name.                                      |
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| Comment   | Notes, Company, Group, Url, Phone, or Birthday. |
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| Addresses | Email(s) (with optional distribution lists)     |
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Addressbook2pine can also take all contacts in a pine .addressbook file and import them into OS X Address Book. Each successfully converted contact is then automatically added to a group within OS X Address Book labeled "addressbook2pine" for easy tracking purposes.

Upon detection, Address2pine will extract from each contact of Address Book: name field (first, middle, last, and suffix), email(s), company/organization, and notes. Regardless of whether the card is checked as "company" or not, Addressbook2pine will set pine's nickname field to the card's company/organization name.

Any contacts without an email address are skipped by the application.

Upon completion, the disclosure buttons can be clicked for a listing of successful conversions as well as the contacts that were not converted.

The end result is, a perfectly synced .addressbook file with all your contacts automatically imported!