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For those who are wondering what will happen to their contact list of Address book in Squirrelmail, they can be imported to Roundcube or Horde by following below procedures:
- Login via SSH and make a backup of the user’s .sqmaildata directory:
cp -a /home/username/.sqmaildata /home/username/.sqmaildata-backup
- Browse to a user’s .sqmaildata directory:
cd /home/username/.sqmaildata/
- Create a file named /home/username/.sqmaildata/address-book-converter.sh with the following content:
#!/bin/bash for x in `ls *.abook` do cat $x | while read line do echo "BEGIN:VCARD" >> $x.vcf echo "VERSION:3.0" >> $x.vcf echo -n "N:" >> $x.vcf echo -n `echo $line | cut -d'|' -f3` >> $x.vcf echo -n ";" >> $x.vcf echo `echo $line | cut -d'|' -f2` >> $x.vcf echo -n "FN:" >> $x.vcf echo `echo $line | cut -d'|' -f1` >> $x.vcf echo -n "EMAIL;TYPE=PREF,INTERNET:" >> $x.vcf echo `echo $line | cut -d'|' -f4` >> $x.vcf echo "END:VCARD" >> $x.vcf echo >> $x.vcf done echo "done $x" done
- Set the permissions on this script to 0755:
chmod 0755 /home/username/.sqmaildata/address-book-converter.sh
- Run the converter script:
sh /home/username/.sqmaildata/address-book-converter.sh
- Ensure the newly generated .vcf file is owned by the account username:
chown username.username /home/username/.sqmaildata/*.vcf
Upon completing the steps above, you can browse to the /home/$username/.sqmaildata/ directory to download the .vcf file(s) to your workstation using the file transfer method of your preference (e.g. FTP, SFTP, cPanel >> File Manager).
Once downloaded to your workstation, you can import the .vcf file into Roundcube with the following steps:
- Login to Roundcube
- Click on the Contacts button in the upper right area
- Click Import in the upper left area
- Click choose file, select the file, and click import
You can import the .vcf file into Horde with the following steps:
- Login to Horde
- In the horizontal navbar navigate to Address Book -> Address Book
- Click on the Import/Export button in the left sidebar
- Click choose file, select the file, and click import
Hopefully above tutorial helps you preserve all your contacts and address-book and import them to RoundCube or Horde, while we still keep missing Squirrelmail for the awesome webmail experience it has given us for all these years.!