From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65738 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ajc@polydistortion.net (Andrew J. Cosgriff) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How does Gnus handle vCard? Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: I'm trying. Message-ID: References: <87oddqujpb.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195506906 27853 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2007 21:15:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:15:06 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14234@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 19 22:15:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuDxP-0007F8-Ts for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:15:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IuDvL-0004jc-3C; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:12:55 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IuDvJ-0004jK-G8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:12:53 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IuDvD-0002tE-BA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:12:53 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IuDv9-00070b-00 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:12:43 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IuDux-0001WP-43 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:12:31 +0000 Original-Received: from off-gw.insys.com.au ([150.101.159.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:12:31 +0000 Original-Received: from ajc by off-gw.insys.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:12:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: off-gw.insys.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FoyJERoJdnUdgtT4FbtJ7nkr870= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65738 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn wrote : > Leo writes: >> vcard.el is loaded in my ~/.emacs. However I am using the vcard.el >> from Jemarch the author of addressbook.el. >> >> http://es.gnu.org/~jemarch/downloads/addressbook/vcard.el > > In gnus/contrib is the right vcard.el. So there's no need to fetch it > somewhere else. Ah. Apologies (it's been a while - i'm just getting back into Gnus - 4 years using a Mac and I've been feeling spiriturally bereft. Thankfully, most of my old Gnus config still works :). Anyway, I'd suggest you try the older version, Leo. When I load the newer one you mention, all I see is a nice little empty box: > +--+ > | | > +--+ You might want to ask the addressbook.el maintainer - Jose E. Marchesi - if he can provide some further wisdom on this? (I'll see if I can have a look at why the new vcard.el's not behaving, but I might not have time until the weekend.) > Indeed and Gnus remains as my only mailer. I hope it can cope with new > technology and standards. vcards are way old, man. Aren't all the cool kids playing with microformats (eg. hcard) now? cheers, cos. -- http://andrew.j.cosgriff.name/ | a long way from home