Hi,

At the University of California, Berkeley, we're looking at RoundCube as a possible replacement for SquirrelMail, which we currently use as our central campus webmail client.

We're going to operate the two clients side by side for a beta period to help find (and fix!) problems as well as gather feedback from users about RoundCube.

Some of our users have devoted considerable time to building their address books in SquirrelMail, and so it is essential that we import that data into RoundCube when we make the transition. That's the easy part. But we also wanted to make the data available to any user that wanted to try out RoundCube during the beta period. To that end, we have developed a one-way address-book import from SquirrelMail to RoundCube. Users will see an extra button in the AddressBook that activates the import, and clicking that will perform the merge.

I don't think this code is appropriate to include in RoundCube itself, in fact, we will remove it from our installation if we move completely to RoundCube. But I do think that if someone else is in the position that we are in -- contemplating or performing a transition from SquirrelMail to RoundCube -- it might be useful. I'm attaching the patch in case it is of use to anyone.

Thanks,

James E. Blair Principal Email Systems Administrator UC Berkeley - IST

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