Importing the Pine Address Book into UA Mail

To import your Pine address book into UA Mail, you must first export the address book from Pine onto your computer's hard drive (or onto a flash drive, etc.), or you can use a mapped drive (including a GACL My Documents directory), but you must first set your computer to view hidden files. You can use UA Mail's My Docs or SFTP to export the address book file. You must also change settings in SFTP and My Docs to be able to view the file for export (or rename the file from within your account.) Following are instructions for exporting the file using UA Mail's My Docs and importing the file into UA Mail.

1. In UA Mail, click My Docs in the left column; this will display the contents of your comp.uark.edu account.
2. Click the Options button, and then click File Display.
3. Check the Show dotfiles check box, click Save Options, and click Home.
4. Locate in the file listing, the Pine address book file called:
   .addressbook
   Note that the filename begins with a period (dot).
   Clicking the filename will display the file contents (the addresses in the address book).
5. Click the download link to the left of the modified date for the file (to the right of the filename), and save the file to a local drive.
6. Click the Address Book link in the left column.
7. Click the Import/Export button at the top.
8. Under "Select the format of the source file: ", select Pine Address Book. You can select "Replace the existing address book with the imported one?" if needed.
9. Under "Select the file to import:", click the Browse button. Find the location where you saved your .addressbook file, select the file, and click Open.
10. Click the Next button to import the address book into UA Mail.