Importing Contacts regularly

[FredThu]

Hi all,

(this is my first post here, please be indulgent !)

I want to import Contacts from my CRM app, which stores them in a ldap. So far I've succeeded to export these contacts, and converted them to vcf.

Then I could import them in a SharedContacts address book, using

curl -u my.user:mypassword --data-binary @/home/user/adresses.vcf http://mail.comp.com/service/home/my.user/sharedcontacts?fmt=vcf

My problem is: I'll have to import these data regularly - so we can send mails to new customers easily. So I will cron this.

Unfortunately, a second "curl / rest" command will add the entries again...

We can use
zmmailbox -z -m my.user emptyFolder /SharedContacts
to clean sharedcontacts before re-importing... but using both CLI and REST sounds unelegant and not obvious to cron.

zmmailbox -z -m my.user pru /SharedContacts /home/user/adresses.vcf
imports bad & useless stuff ;

Is there a way to REST this (some

curl http://mail.comp.com/service/home/my.user/sharedcontacts?action=empyFolder

?)

or

to tell zmmailbox to import vcf ? I tried
zmmailbox -z -m my.user pru -c vcf /SharedContacts /home/user/adresses.vcf
without success

Thanks in advance
(and btw, my colleagues appreciate zimbra ui & zimlets a lot !)

[FredThu]

Some more try & error was successful...

zmmailbox -z -m my.user pru -c text/x-vcard /SharedContacts /home/user/adresses.vcf

does import vcf cards (not documented AFAIK)

This leaves me with 2 questions:
- how can I "emptyfolders" from REST / curl ? - so I can launch the import from a remote server
or
- how can I cron a script using zmmailbox to delete & import the adresses ?

Of course, if some option is available to import contacts without duplicating existing ones, it will be an even nicer solution...

[FredThu]

Well... is it a stupid question, or is there no solution ?