Addressbook2pine is a freeware app that converts Address Book contacts into the tab delimited .addressbook format used by pine.

During the conversion Address Book’s fields are mapped into the pine addressbook as follows:

It can also convert the other way, importing contacts from pine’s addressbook into OS X’s Address Book.

The app’s preference pane contains a number of options that make the process more flexible. For example you can customize the way nicknames are handled or how email IDs are applied:

The app is freeware although the author accepts donations and is available from the developer’s web site.

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Tags: Address Book, AddressBook, Addressbook2pine, importing, pine

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