Importing contacts

Importing contacts

Mailwink lets users import contacts from comma-separated CSV files as well as from standard contact lists in vCard format (VCF files).

VCF format is preferred as it's standardized (while CSV is not). In case if you cannot use VCF, you'll need to make sure the CSV you'll use for data exchange has the columns with certain names and values.

CSV file (comma-separated values) is technically a plaintext file with one database record per line. The first line of the file usually contains table headers. Mailwink supports the following headers and columns of the following kind (headers are case-insensitive, unrecognized headers are ignored):

Mailwink contacts field
Supported CSV file headers
First Name
FirstName
First Name
First
Last Name
LastName
Last Name
Last
Full Name
FullName
Full Name
EmailDisplayName
Email Display Name
DisplayName
Display Name
Name
Nick Name
NickName
Nick 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 Website
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 Address
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
Personal Website
Notes
Notes
Other Email
Other Email
Other E-mail
Birthday
Birthday
Date of birth

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

In Mailwink 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 Outlook 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.

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