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Updating my Address Book in Thunderbird v148. The darned thing does not permit two people to have the same email address or phone number - pain in the "A" to say the least !

Thunderbird inbox shows wrong sender name for message, overriding what the person actually sent with something from its data base. Attached screen shots illustrate:

-- Message is sent from [email]@earthlink.net. This was a joint account for a married couple. When they sent messages, each would have their Email client show the name of the sender. The husband died several years ago, and now the wife is the only one using the account.

-- Screen Shot #1: When I access the message via Thunderbird, for some reason it overrides the name provided by the sender with something from its data base (in this case, the name of the dead husband).

-- Screen Shot #2: When I access the message directly from Gmail, it shows the correct sender name.

This seems to me to be a bug. But if it's not, is there some parameter I can set so that Thunderbird doesn't "help" me with overrides like this?

Thanks for any help anybody can offer.

Hello there :)

I just merged all my CSV files from all my different emails into one big file. I managed to import it in TB, playing with the checkbox for the matching fields so far so good

but

some of my contact have 3 emails, and i need those. so i added a custom field in TB, for the 3rd email (cause the default in TB is 2 emails)

then, if i edit a contact, add a 3rd email to it, it all display ok in TB

the issue i have now, is if i export my adress book back to CSV, that 3rd email information is lost during the process. the "custom" field in the csv field is blank, and the "3rd email" i created in TB is nowhere to be found

anyone could tell me if it's a TB limitation, or if i'm doing something wrong? :)

many thanks,

Baptiste

I just created a new contact, and set their time zone to "Europe/Zurich". After saving the contact, I exported the CardDAV address book in vCard format from "https://carddav.OMITTED/addressbooks/OMITTED/addressbook/?export", the time zone just shows up as "Europe/". So either the form data is being handled improperly by Thunderbird, or the CardDAV server is handling it improperly. I'll also file an issue with sabre/dav in case the problem is with them.

The server (run by a third party) is running sabre/dav 4.6.0:

❯ curl https://carddav.OMITTED

< d:error xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns">
  < s:sabredav-version>4.6.0</s:sabredav-version>
  < s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\NotAuthenticated</s:exception>
  < s:message>No 'Authorization: Basic' header found. Either the client didn't send one, or the server is  misconfigured. Login was needed for privilege: {DAV:}read on </s:message>
< /d:error>

I'am unable to add new contact to address book. I enter all the details but there is no "SAVE" button to apply. I have uninstalled and re- installed several times but the panel to add a new contact still has no SAVE button. I've istalled from Thunderbird official site and Microsoft. I have run in Trouble Shooting Mode, but still same problem. What's going on ????????????? Brian

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 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.

Hi,

I would like to integrate the user's address book (or more specifically the contact details of the current user) into my own (c++) desktop (Windows/MacOS/Linux) application for the user's convenience.

Is this possible at all? If so, where can I start reading to find out how to do this?

(If it's not possible through an API, is the address book file format documented somewhere, so I can read it directly?)

I don't need write access. I just need to be able to read the user's contacts.

Cheers, James

My contacts are a hot mess. For fear of destruction, I have not done any housekeeping. I feel like in past, my elementary trial and error tests have yielded inconsistent results. (It could be my brain that yields inconsistent results.) e.g. Add or delete a test contact on either side, seems to end up confusing me more! I'd love to read about sync priorities or settings yet seems like all I can find is Q&A forums or a download for a printable PDF that is reputedly maybe out of date...

☺Is there a basic, extended primer on how address books and syncing work with TB?

My: "Personal Address Book" has 9K+ entries, yet the google contacts that seems to reside in "Address Book" has only 4K+, which matches my contacts on google site.

I want to begin the arduous process of deleting "duplicates", many of which seem to be not really identical, and I need to ascertain what is current...

But where to start? My fear is if I go to contacts.google.com and do a ton of culling, that at the next sync everything that I deleted will be restored by TB.

Another concern is android syncing to google but I suppose that's another forum. I use Bluemail currently...I just got used to it. I think I finally got past the issues with "phone storage" vs "Google storage" and then I finally realized that linking my phone to 2 separate google accounts wasn't helping.☺

Should I switch to Thunderbird Mobile? Does it sync nicely with android/google? Is every different phone going to behave differently?

TIA and forgive my ignorance.

Since the latest update to my Thunderbird installation (Windows 11), my previously created Mailing Lists have stopped working after always working well. Thunderbird Release: 140.7.0esr (64-bit)

I now get the message below when I try to send an email using a mailing list address:

• • • Committee <*** Committee members> is not a valid email address because it is not of the form user@host. You must correct it before sending the email. (Name partially starred out for security).

Hellow. A year ago ore so, I lost my "Address Book". And this happened when I reinstalled Thunderbird, but used the same profile from the first install. The "Address Book" was gone...... I am now running 128.13.0esr (64-bit) on Ubuntu 24.04.2 Now I have gathered up "profiles" that I have used over the years and are trying to import them into to days version. But I can't seem to find the AddressBook's file. So can someone please tell me the name of this file and wear it's hidden ?

I HAVE A GMAIL ACCOUNT BUT HAVE NO THING IN THE ADDRESS BOOK BUT MY THUNDERBIRD ACCOUNT HAS AN ADDRESS BOOK THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO GMAIL. CAN YOU HELP PLEASE? Regards Marie Bush

I'm aware David replyed to me. Usually if I uninstall Thunderbird and reinstall thunderbird, my addresses are usually there, but this didn't happen this time. My folders weren't loading correctly so I thought TB may be currupt, so I felt it may be worthwhile uninstalling and reinstalling, but may be the worst idea unless there is a way to get the contacts back. I think it's pretty straight forward, what I hope for a goal or at least learn why my address contacts did not load. Usually I download TB from the Mozilla TB site, but it sceems necessary to get the app from the microsoft store. It just sceems like the address book recovery services are not there, so I need a older version.