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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?

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?

I am trying to add my Google Contacts as an address book in Thunderbird so that I can sync my contacts, but I get an error in the process. Below are the sterps I've taken.

I go into my address book and add a new contact list. After I select Add new CardDAV address book and enter my username in the field. Thunderbird automatically fills in the location. I select next.

A web window opens asking me to sign in with my Google account. I enter my email address and click next. This is when I get the error

"400. That’s an error.

The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know."

The URL in the sign-in is quite complex with many parameters and referrers, but I am hesitant to post it here as it includes email addresses and other encoded information that I do not wish to get scraped.

Any ideas?

FYI: I did try CardBook, as many other posts refer to it, but I could not figure it out in a couple of minutes, so I need to read the documentation. But I would like to get the integrated solution working without the add-on if I can.

I would like to share all my contacts in my Address book. When I click on Export, Thunderbird exports my profile and address book into one file. This file is unreadable by others. All I want to do is share all my contacts.

Darryl

I am still using version 60.80, and want to back-up all my contacts. There is no export button in tools, so how do I back them up?

Any advice appreciated. (Not too technical as I am 79)

Thank You

Couldn't find a way to create a new address book, so I used an old one and re-named it and added a new list of names and emails, but when I tried to send an email message, when I typed in the name of the new address book, the field turned RED. Can I send it? How to create a new address book that will work? THANK YOU!

Address sidebar CONTENTS disappears after turning on to forward or send a message, The sidebar is still there but empty of addresses, which do appear for about a second on opening the forward message tab.

thank you Ron Herron

Somehow I have deleted the panel to the side of New Messages that I kept names of frequently emailed people. Now I have just a big page for a new message but no names. I have an address book with the names and email addresses but I have to look up anyone I want to send a message to. How do I get that panel backs to the New Message page?

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.

I am experiencing an issue in Thunderbird where the display name in the message list does not update correctly for certain email addresses.

Environment

Thunderbird version: (e.g., 115.12.1 64bit)

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit (version ...)

Symptoms

I deleted the entire address book (abook.sqlite, history.sqlite, etc.), so it is completely empty.

However, in the Sent or Inbox folder, some addresses still show the old display name that I previously assigned.

When I right-click the address → "Add to Address Book", the new display name is not applied for these specific addresses.

Other addresses work fine under the same conditions.

Tried

Deleted cache files (global-messages-db.sqlite, .msf, panacea.dat)

Cleared Collected Addresses

Created a new profile and tested again

Restored profile from one week ago

Result

In all cases, some addresses still do not update the display name.

Question

Is this a known Thunderbird bug?

Besides clearing caches and history, is there any way to control the priority of display name shown in the message list?