[Psi-Devel] Importing aliases and groups

[Cliff Dugal]

On Sunday, December 23, 2007, wwp wrote:
> Since editing the config.xml file while offline doesn't work (edits
> will get lost when going online), is there another way to "import"
> aliases and groups from an old account to a new one?

You could try the Jabber roster utility at http://jru.jabberstudio.org/ , 
though you'll still need to do a lot of things manually.

> If a "reference account" property is set to a new account, could it
> be possible (programmatically or using a plugin called upon specific
> events) to make sure that every contact that gets added to the new
> account list will have its alias and group imported from the reference
> old account?

I suppose it could be possible to set up rules such that any contact added on 
an account will have its JID checked against a "reference account", and if 
the JID matches, then your choice of contact properties would be set. There 
would have to be a place to specify server aliases so that MSN et. al. 
contacts will work too.

In my mind, this would not be a core client functionality, so I would say that 
this is a better candidate for a plugin.
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