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I have been using Thunderbird as my mail service for many years, using it on the PC and my smartphone. Since several weeks ago, for an unknown reason, the "SENT" folder on the smartphone shows all the messages which were sent, but not with the correct name of the person/organization to who the email was sent. All my messages in the "SENT" folder are recorded as having been sent to "Lucie Payant" with a picture of her avatar, instead of showing the name of the real correspondent.

However, the "SENT" folder on my PC is fine and shows the correct correspondent to whom the email was sent to.

I verified all my settings, and, as far as I know, everything seems correct on my cell. This situation is very annoying and confusing.

Can you help me please. Raymond

I have been using Thunderbird for 20+ years and am on the latest version, but trying to eliminate what I believe to be old files from legacy versions that have been left behind. I don't want to delete anything and break Thunderbird, but wondered if these files were redundant:

abook.v2.sqlite + abook.v3.sqlite

These haven't changed since 2021 & 2022 apparently.

Also, I have a lot of address books (I find using addresses in a given address book excellent for email filters). Are abook-1.sqlite, abook-2.sqlite etc my individual address books?

If so, how can I tell which file belongs to which address book?

I also have v2 and v3 files (eg: abook-1.v2.sqlite) for most of these.

Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks in advance for any help.

I have set up my address book as CardDAV connecting to my Google Contacts. When I update a contact in my Google Contacts online (such as changing the address or phone number), the change doesn't get synced to my Thunderbird contacts unless I go into my TB address book and do a synchronization.

Can my Thunderbird address book be made to automatically sync with Google Contacts every so often?

I can't find in mobile Thunderbird address book. It is not convenient to fill manually Adresse of Adressat to write email. There's no way to keep email address of people in email in non existent address book. Can you help?

Some of my contacts have passed on. Others are dysfunctional. Whenever I delete the address in the address book, the question comes up: do you want to delete? If I click 'yes', nothing happens. even if I delete the email via editing the contact, the email is restored again. I use Linux Mint 22.

anyone know how to recover my email contacts in latest version ot TB, theyve dissapeared since using spam aniallater , with is now uninstalled.

i have the same email acct on my other pc , could i recover everything from therte as its intact thanks

also my TB spam filters have now dissapeared [but still seem to be working] but filtering the wrong things. thanks if anyone can help

I run aPC with Win 7 (64 bit) and use TB 115.18.0 (64 bit) Supernova (esr) I have all my contacts in a folder on the HDD (data drive). However, I cannot find where TB stores its "contacts" folder. Nor how to import my contacts from the windows folder. I have tried to download a "contacts sidebar" from TB, but my ver. of TB is "not suitable" " " " " create a "contacts" folder to replace the "Starred" folder etc. (failed) and even created a "contacts" folder in the "Local Folders"(succeeded). However when I tried to drag and drop the files from windows toTB, it failed.

There must be a simple way to to import contacts. 

Can somebody help please.

John

I updated to the lastest version of Thunderbird (Windows) a couple of days ago and ever since have been unable to send emails and my address book has disppeared. The two things seem to be connected as Thunderbird seems to refuse to send emails that do not have an address in my address book and as the address book has gone - no send! I can't even reply to incoming emails, the "send" button just stays grey (see attached example). Even if I type the email address - same result. If I try to add a contact to Address Book nothing happens when I hit "New Contact". The address book just comes up with the following strange messages:

"Contacts from remote address books are not show until you search" note nothing happens when I search

and

"This addess book show contacts only after a search" again nothing. (Screenshot attached)

I have tried copying address book from a back up of my profile that is a only a week or so old but nothing changes. I can see lots of abook-x.sqlite etc files in the back up profile but even deleting all of these in the working profile and copying the back up files in does nothing.

Any help would be appreciated as I can't just keep using my mobile version to conduct business.

The new Address Book version 145 has All Address Books, Address Book, Personal Address Book, and Collected Addresses. I created several mailing list in the Personal Address Book but I can no longer drag and drop from that book to the mailing lists. Suggestions?

Are spam/junk/bulk mail addresses automatically stored as "collected addresses" in the thunderbird address book? When and how are inbox addresses added to the address book automatically? May spam/junk/bulk mail addresses be auto-deleted from the address book in set-up?

I have to send out a message on Mailchimp to all my contacts. I used to just go to tools and set up a CSV file with the contacts separated by commas but now I cannot see how to do that on Thunderbird.

How is it done please?

I installed Thunderbird and got my Protonmail working--even my trash folder is functional after not working for the past month-- except that the contacts did not accompany the message history and files. There are instructions for importing an address book file, but I do not know what sort of file my protonmail address book is ( .cvs, .tsv, or .ldif, or .vcf., .vczrd, or .sqlite, or .mab).

I created a Mailing List within an Address Book a year ago. I now need to add some new contacts to the Mailing List . I added the new contacts but could only add them to the Address Book. I now need to copy them from the Address Book to the Mailing List, but can't see how to do so , there seems to be no way to view the two lists side-by-side.

Trying to backup thunderbird address books. Online help says to select the address book, go to tools, then export and select file type. Instructions say should see file format options like csv but the only option showing on mine is zip with no other options. I can backup the entire profile, and have done so, but how bo I backup the address book?