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The functionality of the addressbook is very frustrating to me.

I have about 1000 contacts in my addressbook, which I'd love to sort into groups. And when writing an email to a certain group, I would like to display the list of that group in the sidebar of the Email. However, this is only possible when I make a new addressbook for each group, because only addressbooks are displayed as a list with all the contacts contained.

Now most of my contacts are in several different groups/addressbooks (for example, "Steve" is in my "hiking" group and also in my "work" and "neighborhood" group). However, one contact can only be in one addressbook. Meaning if I want to add Steve to the different groups/addressbooks, I have to copy his contacts three times to be able to put him in the three different groups/addressbooks. Doing this for all the contacts I have, it would get cluttered very much, very soon. Which I find super frustrating because it can get very confusing and it just seems so unneccessary. The other frustrating thing about this is, you can't just copy a contact, but you have to create a contact manually each time or via the "save email" button in received emails. But the latter can also be confusing because the format of the saved contact can vary; Steve can either be "Steve Smith" one time, but also "NameIThoughtWasCoolWhenIwas12@narf.org" another time.

What I'd love to have is ONE profile for each contact where I can put in all the information I have/need/want and that profile can be part of several different groups. If a contact has more than one email in their profile (i.e. privat, work), I'd ideally be able to attach one email to one group and another email to a different group. And obviously, the group can also be displayed as a list in the sidebar while writing an email (just like addressbooks are now).

I don't know how it can be implemented (keywords, tags?), but it would be great if it was possible.

I also don't know if it is possible already and I'm just to slow to get it. So if anyone knows a) how to add a contact to several addressbooks without having to copy the contact each time or b) how to display a mailing list as a list in the sidebar, I'm all ears.

WIN 10 independant SSD. (yes i refuse to run 11)

HOW is it posssible in 2026 imprting the contacts/addresses from a prior application is still such a mess?

I have copied, pasted, imported etc and NO CONTACTS. WHY? how does this not work, I have used ai, tutorials etc and still a mess.

I use the native import under tools, Point to my old appdata profile and still nothing.

While i am here,, how in 2026 can the colors still blow? honestly,, why is my email body still 255 white and only the nav colume an inbox changes? Or is it me?

Thanks, Simple Jack

Every entry in my address book is duplicated. I don't know how this happened. All are in my Personal Address Book. No entries in any other address books.

What can I do?

My single line above says it all really. I'm very happy not to have lost any emails, but the fact the contact lists didn't transfer also is a bit of a pain. I realise I can create new ones from my emails but that will take quite a while and I might have lost some people along the way. Hope there's a simple fix

I am working with thunderbird on two locations and have problems moving contents between address books and entering new contacts into address books.

On location A I have created a mailing list X under my personal address book. I could fill it by copy/paste address and name from mails received. Then I created a cardav address book Y and somehow (ctrl + left mouse?) succeeded to drag and drop the entries from X to Y and synchronized it with a nextcloud cardav file.

Now I went to location B, created a cardav address book with the same credentials as on location A and got the Y addresses synchronized.

So far, so good.

Then I tried to enter new addresses in location B into this Y online address book. Problem - I could not find a way to add new contacts into a line with copy/paste like into the X mailing list in location A. New contacts could only be added via the "New Contact" form, no copy/paste.

Then I created a mailing list in my personal address book with the same name X. I could not find a way to copy the content of the online address book Y into this list (on location B). When I tried with ctrl-left button drag and drop, the target mailing list X was forbidden. Only copying to my personal address book would be possible. But at least this mailing list X offered again the copy and paste possibility in one line, but unfortunately the list was empty.

Then I tried it with export/import. I exported Y from the online book to a vcf file on my computer, then tried to import the file to my mailing list X, but I could not find a way to import the file to the mailing list X.

I can create a new address book and move the contents of the cardav book to it. But adding new contacts is possible only via the "New Contact" form where I cannot just copy/past addresses from emails.

Any suggestion how I can work with my mailing list contacts on both locations and easily enter new contacts with copy/paste from mails without having to use the form?

I am trying to get my Address Book(s) off an old PC that barely has any resolution. I cannot locate any MAB files, only SQLITE files (abook, etc.). What is the file that the address book is found in?

I have just starting using Thundermail and one thing I am trying to understand better is Address Books in Desktop Thundermail in Windows 11.

I now have the following under address books: All address books (assume that this is just everything in all the address books), Personal Adress Book (empty), Contacts ( not sure where it comes from, probably 1 or both of the 2 emails of mine I have connected), Contacts (not sure where this came from but looks suspiciously like it comes from my gmail email or emails? as it is a long list), Thundermail Address Book (empty), Collected Addresses (looks like it picks these up from emails I send or receive).

I am interested in understanding what forms this initial list of address books, do they continue to reflect changes in the original source address books from outside or are they a once only transfer?), how I can manipulate them, probably to end up with: All address books, and other address books continuing various subsets for convenient access to a smaller list of contacts under these sub address book names.

Can I easily copy or move addresses between address books? Documentation already answering many of these questions may already exist? Thanks for any help or advice you may be able to provide.

Have been trying off and on for last couple of days to export my contacts from Thunderbird into CSV format. Internet says it's easy. Just open TB> contacts> choose the contact list you want to export> tools> export> save it as CSV. Only option in tools is to export the whole profile into a zip file and no way to select just contacts saving in CSV. So, how do you save contacts as a CSV file, getting around the export of the whole profile?

I have been having difficulties with my email service provider and Thunderbird. So am trying to export my contacts. They still, fortunately, show up in Thunderbird. When I go to export, it doesn't give me any options on saving other than exporting into a zip file a profile backup.... no contact list like I really need.

I can't match field names in Thunderbird 158.0 (64-bit) on Win 11 when importing addresses from Google .csv file. The dropdowns to pick TB fields to match the .csv header fields only show one item, usually (and obviously) the wrong one . For example, Last Name is not matched with Last Name and cannot be changed.

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8usw6dgucrkd71l9m4hk3/ImportAddressBookMatchFieldNames.png?rlkey=216i5dyax4it6sz4909b7ujfy&dl=0