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Q&A How to get a mailto: URI out of abook(1)

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&gt...

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alx‭ · 2023-09-30T14:15:52Z (8 months ago)
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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?~~

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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alx‭ · 2023-09-24T13:18:40Z (8 months ago)

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How to get a mailto: URI out of abook(1)

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?

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