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'bold text'create new email and type name in address box and no email address shows up ALSO, SEARCH ON THE SIDE DOES NOT SHOW THE ADDRESS WHEN YOU DO THE SEARCH.

When I added my treasurer@mlakes.org email to my Thunderbird account all of my previous contacts were not included. Can they somehow be added ?

I have Version 140.8.0esr | Released February 24, 2026, for Linux Mint (up to date)

I have a CardDAV address book on a Nextcloud instance that i want to sync to Thunderbird.

When i open Address Book and the clikc on " Create a new address book" the Account Hub modal window opens. None of the 4 options (including Add Remote Address Book" do anything, i.e. I can click as much as I like but nothing happens.

I have a backup file from another thunderbird installation. The profile in this backup contains a file named abook.mab. I suppose this is the address book. I would like to copy the addresses from this installation to my current thunderbird 147.0.1 (64-bit). Tools > import > address book does not work. Can you please advise me?

I left outlook and chose tbird with cardbook. I am not happy with it. When I choose "new message" I get a blank form and can choose an individual addressee but do not have the option of addressing I group I created. My contacts are in google with supposed cardbook coordination. I think your contact list is interferring with the cardbook data. This is a kluge. How do I fix it

Recently, I exported my Address Books, i.e., Personal and Collected as CSV files. Looking through those files I discovered that not all "Fields" from the Address Book had been included during export. Some of my contacts include three or four email addresses. The CSV Header added to the top of my exports only shows "Primary Email" and "Secondary Email" in the Header. There may also be other Fields of information that are not exported, but I haven't looked and, frankly, didn't expect to have to check my exported files. When editing a Contact if that contact has more than two email address I expected those to be part of the export file. I am running the current version of Thunderbird on my Windows 11 computer and an earlier version on a Windows 7 computer. Both versions of Thunderbird do not export all Field Data from the Address Books.

I tried importing my Outlook Classic address book. As you can see from the attachment, I really messed it up!. I am not technical at all, I wasn't sure if I needed to import my contacts or my address book. I think, but am not really sure, that I exported my .pst file, address book to a csv vile. Can anyone one straighten me out? If I have to start over, how do I delete the mess I created without loosing all of my other settings? Thank you very much 😊😊😊

Address book import is not working after I import it. It says I have 516 contacts. All I see are big grey dots but no information inside them.

I'm exporting from Classic Outlook (2016) in .CSV format.

I run TBD 140.8.0 esr (64 bit) under Debian 12 Linux. Until recently I could automatically enter a special address from the pertaining addressbook, this does not work anymore. helpfiles do not show a solution thus I am here.

The addressbook is full of addresses however I have to transfer a special address via past and copy into the addressfield of the mail I want to send.

Thanks for a quick answer Jörg Kampmann

I recently installed Thunderbird on my Android pad where all my email contacts came in fine. However, I just went to my Windows 10 laptop where I've previously used Thunderbird and my contacts are missing. How do I get them back to my laptop?

I would glad donate to TB Mozilla IF it would work the way it is supposed to. I tried for 3 hours to create a MAILING LIST nut to no avail. The instructions make no sense.

Also in my Address book that I imported, phone numbers show up under the heading "email addresses...and I have email showing up at all.

Stan

Monsieur, Je voudrais envoyer un mail et ... plus de carnet d'adresse !? D ou ma colere et ma surprise, j espere que la nouvelle vertion de Thunderbird n a pas écrase mon carnet d adresse ! Ou le trouver ? et le mettre en lien la nouvelle vertion pour l utiliser comme avant ! si c'est possible ! Merci de votre boulot pour cette vertion mais prevenez que le carnet d adresse est ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cordialement David

I'm using a 2 year old Mac running Sonoma 14.7.2. I recently updated to Thunderbird 128.13.0esr. I have a small e-mail address group within address books, created way before my recent Thunderbird update. Now I want to add people to that small group. Having trouble. Don't find any way to "add" to the small e-mail address list. In fact, I can't even type the new ones in there. I was hoping I could either shiftC/shiftV or drag and drop but that didn't work either. (and now, I just noticed that all the addess lists are much shorter than they were before I started trying to add to the small group! So it looks like I've lost a substsntial number of email addresses!! Some time ago when I updated Thunderbird, I lost all my saved mail. I went into Time Machine and went back to the prior Thunderbird and stayed there for a couple of years, afraid to update again until a few days ago. It seemed OK until today when I'm having this address book problem. Maybe I'll have to go back in time again. V.H. DeMarco

Nachdem mein PC neu installiert wurde musste ich auch alle Programme wieder neu installieren. Leider fehlen bei der Installation von Thunderbird meine vorherigen Email-Adressen, bzw. Adressbuch, und bei Firefox die vorherigen Favoriten. Wie kann ich diese Wiederherstellen? LG 49.0.1 (64-Bit) Neue Funktionen und Änderungen Thunderbird ist aktuell Sie sind derzeit auf dem Update-Kanal release.

Make email addresses easily copyable.

My address book is the foundation of my office.

The email addresses are regularly copied into other programs. Unfortunately, they always appear in this format. Reinhard Gnath <info@r-gnath.de>

It's a lot of work to process the raw addresses. info@r-gnath.de

I would like a copy button for the raw email address, my dears!

The completed project should be published! I have also made a donation. bye bye

As I store all my contacts in a CarDav sync I have no need for a "Personal Address Book". It might even be a problem because accidentily stored addresses there are not synced. The "Delete" on the context menu is grey and cannot be selected. How do I permantely remove "Personal Address Book" from the list of contacts?

I have several email accounts hosted by One.Com. I have NO problems synchronising the emails in Thunderbird with IMAP. However I do not succeed to synchonise the Contacts. The Contacts list for each of these accounts are available through CALDAV. The format of the URL is https://caldav.one.com/addressbooks/users/user@example.com/contacts .

I am running Thunderbird 148.0.1 on Windows 11 and as far as I understand should this version support CALDAV. Thunderbird does not recognise the contacts list when adding the email account. I tried to manually add the address book (remote address book) but I get stuck in the Account Hub. When I enter username and URL the account hub responds with the message "caldav.one.com is known to be incompatible with Thunderbird" (translation from Swedish!). I then also tried with several Add ons without result.

Does someone has a work around?