From 84492af3bf834e049313c9f5f093b23b56267c1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lange Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:26:41 +0200 Subject: Update README.md with Radicale 2.x storage change info --- README.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8d501a7..bc9447c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ Mirrored at https://github.com/fasterit/findcontact **findcontact** is a small perl script that enables searching with a set of regexes to find contacts within a (large) .vcf file. Obtaining a contacts.vcf depends on which CardDAV server / client you run. -With [radicale](http://radicale.org/) you can just copy the file off the server into the directory where your findcontact resides. Or copy / link findcontact into the correct radicale collections subdirectory. +With [radicale 1.x](http://radicale.org/) you could just copy the file off the server into the directory where your findcontact resides. Or copy / link findcontact into the correct radicale collections subdirectory. -Unfortunately every .vcf client decides on a specific set of attributes to support and the [Inverse Sogo Connector](https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends) everybody uses for getting the Thunderbird address book synced can't search over all fields. So if you want to search for a phone number you're out of luck. Unless you run findcontact :). +Unfortunately the radicale 2.x branch switched to a [file-per-contact storage system](https://radicale.org/2.1.html#documentation/migration-from-1xx-to-2xx/storage) that needs some `cat` magic to produce a single .vcf file again. + +Every .vcf client decides on a specific set of attributes to support and the [Inverse Sogo Connector](https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends) everybody uses for getting the Thunderbird address book synced can't search over all fields. So if you want to search for a phone number you're out of luck. Unless you run findcontact :). It has been written to only depend on perl modules that ship with a default installation and does __not__ depend on Text::vCard::Addressbook or the like. -- cgit v1.2.3