using vcards in yahoo mail?
Hi,
I have people send me vcards and calendar entries to my yahoo address. I don't see any way to add those like in outlook or such. Is there a way to add them automatically, or with a click?
Thanks!
I have people send me vcards and calendar entries to my yahoo address. I don't see any way to add those like in outlook or such. Is there a way to add them automatically, or with a click?
Thanks!
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While I didn't really get to know how to use a vcard, you did put in the time to answer, so here are the points:)
Thank you ugeb.
No, my comment didn't really provide any actual solution to your problem, did it? I certainly couldn't see any way to import VCards directly into Yahoo Mail. It only offers the import methods I described above with screenshots.
As far as "Calendar" attachments is concerned, it is something I have never been involved with before, so I'm not really qualified to discuss that part of your question in any depth. The only thing I can see in Yahoo Webmail that vaguely resembles Importing calendar data is:
Yahoo Webmail > Calendar > Sync (link across at the right).
Yahoo Sync is described here:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contacts/yahoosync/
As far as importing from a VCF card received as an attachment is concerned, I still cannot find a direct way to do this in Yahoo Webmail. The *.CVF file type is normally registered in Windows Operating Systems to add the contact to your address book when opened from the attachment in an INSTALLED email client, but that does not hold true for Webmail interfaces.
In my previous comment I discussed the only current option now apparently available in Yahoo Mail. It is handled by a third party and you effectively provide them with the email addresses and passwords of your other accounts such as GMail, and hope that it is all done securely and works. I still will not recommend this because of my past experiences and mistrust, however here is further reading:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/manage/contactsadd-11.html
I think it is rather pathetic that Yahoo cannot or will not create their own tool to import from a a single file in choice of formats. They wouldn't have to support all possible formats, because there are converters available and "remapping" of the data fields could even be accomplished with a plain old "DOS" batch file, but a handful of common formats would have been handy.
I was curious to see what format Yahoo WebMail allowed you to EXPORT your Contacts to. (Contacts > Tools dropdown > Export). I actually started some notes a while back in which intended to exhaustively compare the different formats that could be exported by different email clients, but never finished it. I have attached it just as an informational extra. You are aware that a vCard is just basic editable text that can be opened in a text editor like Windows Notepad?
Regards
Bill
Q-26830052-Notes.txt
No, my comment didn't really provide any actual solution to your problem, did it? I certainly couldn't see any way to import VCards directly into Yahoo Mail. It only offers the import methods I described above with screenshots.
As far as "Calendar" attachments is concerned, it is something I have never been involved with before, so I'm not really qualified to discuss that part of your question in any depth. The only thing I can see in Yahoo Webmail that vaguely resembles Importing calendar data is:
Yahoo Webmail > Calendar > Sync (link across at the right).
Yahoo Sync is described here:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contacts/yahoosync/
As far as importing from a VCF card received as an attachment is concerned, I still cannot find a direct way to do this in Yahoo Webmail. The *.CVF file type is normally registered in Windows Operating Systems to add the contact to your address book when opened from the attachment in an INSTALLED email client, but that does not hold true for Webmail interfaces.
In my previous comment I discussed the only current option now apparently available in Yahoo Mail. It is handled by a third party and you effectively provide them with the email addresses and passwords of your other accounts such as GMail, and hope that it is all done securely and works. I still will not recommend this because of my past experiences and mistrust, however here is further reading:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/manage/contactsadd-11.html
I think it is rather pathetic that Yahoo cannot or will not create their own tool to import from a a single file in choice of formats. They wouldn't have to support all possible formats, because there are converters available and "remapping" of the data fields could even be accomplished with a plain old "DOS" batch file, but a handful of common formats would have been handy.
I was curious to see what format Yahoo WebMail allowed you to EXPORT your Contacts to. (Contacts > Tools dropdown > Export). I actually started some notes a while back in which intended to exhaustively compare the different formats that could be exported by different email clients, but never finished it. I have attached it just as an informational extra. You are aware that a vCard is just basic editable text that can be opened in a text editor like Windows Notepad?
Regards
Bill
Q-26830052-Notes.txt
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22656421/Suspicious-Internet-File-Cache.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22655878/how-to-export-MSN-Hotmail-calendar.html