wiki/contacts.md

Contacts

To use a terminal addressbook the following programs are needed.

programm	description
khard	terminal addressbook
vdirsyncer	sync tool for calendars

Installation and configuration

To configure vdirsyncer edit a file in ~/.config/vdirsyncer/config.

[general]
status_path = "~/.cache/vdirsyncer/status"

#contacts
[pair private_contacts]
a = "private_contacts_local"
b = "private_contacts_remote"
collections = ["from a", "from b"]

[storage private_contacts_local]
type = "filesystem"
path = "~/.local/share/pim/contacts"
fileext = ".vcf"

[storage private_contacts_remote]
type = "carddav"
url = "https://<url>"
username = "<username>"
password = "<password>"
auth = "basic"

After that initialize vdirsyncer.

vdirsyncer discover && vdirsyncer metasync

And keep regularly syncing your data (crontab). The command to sync is the following.

vdirsyncer sync

Now you just need to add and configure the config and youre done.

mkdir ~/.config/khard
cp /usr/share/doc/khard/khard.conf.example ~/.config/khard/khard.conf

Mutt

It is possible to use your khard-addressbook in mutt. To see how it works check out the Mutt.