Import Email Addresses in Apple Address Book

Originally posted 2007-08-06 17:40:17

My parents spent the past three years Down Under doing missionary work. They lived in Melbourne, halfway around the world from us in Florida, USA. Email shortened the distance and resolved the time zone issues, so communication ran freely. Rather than ferry a computer around the globe and foot a shipping bill that exceeded the value of the goods shipped, they bought a computer in Australia and left it behind on their departure. They did all their email in Outlook Express, and my father took care to ask me how to preserve the contents of their address book to bring back to Florida. I told him to export the address book, copy it to a flash drive, and we’d deal with it when they got home. He obeyed me as well as I obeyed him a few decades ago, and instead sent five separate emails announcing his new stateside email address to the people in his address book, one-fifth of the addresses per email, and bcc’ed his new address on each one. He fancied himself clever.

Not only did I talk him out of using Outlook Express on his American reentry, I also talked him out of a Wintel Vista machine and into a 20