Which Address Book To Use

Linux has a fair number of address books to choose from. They may not be as easy to move around on your desk as your Rolodex, but they have a number of other advantages. In particular you can enter any number of contacts and search them in no time. Address books often come integrated with other types of software. For example the Mozilla address book comes with the Mozilla mail client Thunderbird, which makes it easy to move contact information from email to the address book and vice versa. The integration of the email client and the address book also makes it possible to quickly create distribution lists.

The Ximian Evolution address book is part of the evolution personal information manager. It is also well integrated with email and supports distribution lists. Furthermore, it can import data from Outlook Express, vCard, and other file formats, and synchronizes with Palm PDAs.

KDE's address book is part of KDE's Kontact application. As all KDE components it integrates well with the other KDE components, in particular KMail, the email component, KOrganizer, the Calender component, and the instant messaging system Kopete. It provides all standard address book functions and imports and exports all major address book file formats.