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Export or use a single contact as attachement to a mail

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daniel.schoeni replied
daniel.schoeni
daniel.schoeni

I remember a time, where it was possible to simply drag a contact to a new mail to send it to friends. Shortly I wanted to send my wife a contact she lost, but it was no more possible, to attach it to a mail. Even an export of this single contact is not possible. Why?

I don't like to export the whole contact folder for her, because there are many contacts she will never use. So it should be possible to export 1 single contact as .vcf alone.

I would be happy, if the developers would rebuild this functionality for a future update. Thanks.

I remember a time, where it was possible to simply drag a contact to a new mail to send it to friends. Shortly I wanted to send my wife a contact she lost, but it was no more possible, to attach it to a mail. Even an export of this single contact is not possible. Why? I don't like to export the whole contact folder for her, because there are many contacts she will never use. So it should be possible to export 1 single contact as .vcf alone. I would be happy, if the developers would rebuild this functionality for a future update. Thanks.

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david
david
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On option is, when in compose window, to press F9 to display addressbook, then highlight the desired email address and drag into the message content window.

daniel.schoeni
daniel.schoeni Question owner

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Thank you, but it just paints the first mail address into the message window, not the whole contact.

I found another solution by installing the CardBook add-on. There I can send a contact directly to mail from it's context. Altough the installation was a bit tricky. The initial addressbook import from Thunderbird failed with empty address books. So I had to delete them all and I had to reimport the books manually over the "New Addresbook" menu. Also I had to add this command to the command palette first.

Modified by daniel.schoeni

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