I store my address book with abook(1).

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/abook/abook.1.en.html

Let's say I want to introduce some contact in some field that accepts the usual name <email> format.

How can I ask abook(1) to produce that format?

The addressbook entry is the following:

[0]
name=Alejandro Colomar
email=alx@kernel.org,alx.manpages@gmail.com
nick=alx

(I hope it's a valid one.)

With --mutt-query, I can get something similar:

$ abook --mutt-query alx

alx@kernel.org	Alejandro Colomar	 
alx.manpages@gmail.com	Alejandro Colomar	 

Then, I can do some magic with custom formats, but I get a wrong email:

$ abook --mutt-query=alx --outformat=vcard \
  | abook --convert --infile=- --informat=vcard \
          --outformat=custom --outformatstr='{name} <{email}>';
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org,alx.manpages@gmail.com>

The above pipeline works only for contacts with a single email. Is there a way to make it work for every contact?

EDIT:

This is what I'd expect:

$ abook --mutt-query=alx --outformat=mailto
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

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