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Learning and auto adding contacts from sent addresses

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mozilla516
mozilla516

I have just installed Thunderbird for my wife on Fedora. She is struggling because she relies on her program (formerly mac Mail) 'knowing' the addresses of contacts and autosuggesting when she types the first few letters. Obviously with a fresh install of TB, it doesn't 'know' any of her contacts. Is there a way to make it learn from the Sent Items folder? So that it auto adds all addresses she HAS SENT TO (in the past), to her contacts/address book? Thanks

I have just installed Thunderbird for my wife on Fedora. She is struggling because she relies on her program (formerly mac Mail) 'knowing' the addresses of contacts and autosuggesting when she types the first few letters. Obviously with a fresh install of TB, it doesn't 'know' any of her contacts. Is there a way to make it learn from the Sent Items folder? So that it auto adds all addresses she HAS SENT TO (in the past), to her contacts/address book? Thanks

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david
david
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I know of no easy solution, but I'll share two thoughts: - be sure to select to save outgoing messages at settings>composition - to capture those already sent, highlight each message, rightclick 'From' in preview pane and click 'add to addressbook'

mozilla516
mozilla516 Spørgsmålsstiller

Thanks. Shame. :(

sfhowes
sfhowes
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There is an add-on that will extract addresses from selected messages and export them to a csv file, which can be imported to TB:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/mail-extractor/

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Import_address_list_from_text_file

david
david
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@steve, thanks for adding that. Good to know. :)

mozilla516
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Wow, ditto! I will have to give that a whirl

sfhowes
sfhowes
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See also https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/collectaddresses/

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