Importing contacts - WebMail Pro ASP.NET documentation

Importing contacts

WebMail Pro offers personal address book available as Contacts screen. Aside from adding contacts manually, it is possible to import those from address book of Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. Contacts are exported from those products in form of CSV file (comma-separated values) which technically is a plaintext file with one database record per line. The first line of the file usually contains table headers. WebMail Pro supports the following headers and columns of the following kind (headers are case-insensitive, unrecognized headers are ignored):

WebMail Pro contacts field	Supported CSV file headers
First Name	First Name
Last Name	Last Name
Full Name	FullName EmailDisplayName Email Display Name Name
Title	Title
Business Company	Company
Business Department	Department
Business Job Title	Job Title
Business Email	Business Email Business E-mail
Business Web Site	Business Web Business Web Page
Business Office Location	Office Location
Business Street	Business Street
Business City	Business City
Business State	Business State
Business Zip Code	Business Postal Code
Business Country	Business Country
Business Fax	Business Fax
Business Phone	Business Phone
Home Street	Home Street
Home City	Home City
Home State	Home State
Home Zip Code	Home Postal Code
Home Country	Home Country
Home Fax	Home Fax
Home Phone	Home Phone
Home Mobile	Mobile Phone
Home Email	Email E-mail E-mail Address Email Address EmailAddress
Home Web Site	Web Page Web-Page WebPage
Notes	Notes
Other Email	Other Email Other E-mail
Birthday	Birthday Date of Birth

WebMail Pro uses full name only, and if it is not available in CSV content, it is composed from First Name and Last Name.

In WebMail Pro database, birthday is actually split into 3 fields for day, month and year. Various separators are recognized, any of the following formats should work: DD.MM.YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY or DD-MM-YYYY. Notations which start from year (e.g. YYYY.MM.DD) are handled properly as well.

As you can see, only English versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are currently supported. If you use the product in other language, we suggest to modify CSV file manually and amend the headers using patterns from the above table.

You can download sample CSV file, it contains 2 entries, one of those has basic information supplied while the other entry has most of the fields filled.