adding buddies

[Mark Doliner]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sam Huewe <shuewe at good-sam.com> wrote:
> I am trying to add a buddy list the is in a excel format or csv format.
>
> is Pidgin able to do this or how can I load a buddy list using the export
> contact list from Outlook.
>
> I am trying to avoid adding my buddies in one at a time.

Pidgin doesn't natively support importing buddies from a list.  There
is a plugin with some semblance of buddy importing capabilities, but I
haven't tried it and don't know if it would work for you.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#CanIimportorexportmybuddylist

--Mark