Lightweight (terminal based?) address book manager that supports vcard

Hi folks,
I'm on the look out for what the title says, a lightweight program that will let me manage my address book (that's stored in vcard format). Ideally it would be terminal based, to go with mutt. I'm currently using lbdb to allow mutt to query the vcard file along with other sources.
I looked at abook, but that doesn't seem to support vcard, and rolo, but that just makes you edit the things in a text editor.
Anyone know of anything?
Alternatively, what awesomely good lightweight address book system do you use?
Pete.

Thanks for the info Dave. I threw up this package, which includes the vcard patch: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47770
It imports vcards nicely enough, though would be nice if it used vcard as a backend (i.e. let me edit the vcards).

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Marc Charbonneau wrote:
> Our CIO wants a few address book entries that if chosen, will all
> send to the same account.
>
> Seems easy enough but I haven't found a way, without creating a new
> account that has some Forward or Delegate rule.
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