Mac Address Book… try Thunderbird Nightly

The latest Thunderbird Trunk Builds are built to integrate into the Mac Address Book and we need some testing, so stop watching bug 203927 for builds.

1. Grab an Official Mac (Universal binary) from the nightly build

2. Enable the Address Book via the config editor (sorry you have to do this)

Open Preferences / Options and go to the tab Advanced -> General
Click: [Config Editor...]

Change the following: (from bug 397811)
"ldap_2.servers.osx.description" -> "System Address Book"
"ldap_2.servers.osx.dirType"     -> 3
"ldap_2.servers.osx.uri"         -> "moz-abosxdirectory:///"

3. Restart Thunderbird

4. Try out using your System Address Book integrated into Thunderbird

5. File some bugs or hop on the dev.apps.thunderbird news group to ask about issues

Some Know Issues

System address book is not turned on by default (thus the directions above)
Thunderbird doesn’t respect primary email address of OS X address book

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Published:: 04.16.08 / 7am

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My name is Bryan Clark, I’m a User Experience Designer working with Mozilla Messaging on Thunderbird; currently living in the Boston area. I have interests in design, economics, architecture, and beer. Previous to my work with Mozilla I was one of a select few Interaction Designers at Red Hat, working on their Desktop Team, OLPC, GNOME, Online Desktop and many other projects.

This blog focuses mainly on my work driving design in an open source context.

Michael April 16, 2008

This is nice, but… is a similar thing on the way for Linux? E.g. using the evolution-data-server for contacts etc? *That* would be great…

Adam Dempsey April 16, 2008

I’m sure a lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time! Looking forward to trying it out!

Henrik Skupin April 17, 2008

Bryan, this feature isn’t only available for the latest trunk builds. Even builds from before a half year made it possible. But thanks for the post. Hopefully it will activate some users to do further testings. Personally I really love the integration and cannot await the next Thunderbird release. After the release of Firefox 3 I’ll try to do some more testings on this part.

Boemer April 17, 2008

Works fine with Addressbook, Thunderbird looks nice incomparison to last time I used it (a few years ago). I think I give it a longer try…

chris.the.swiss May 5, 2008

can’t find the
ldap_2.servers.osx.description

in fact nothing with osx in it. (I am on 10.4.11…)

what I find is:
ldap_2.servers.Contacts.description

also:
ldap_2.servers.osx.uri
seems to be
ldap_2.servers.default.uri
(Value:
moz-abldapdirectory://default.mab)

right now there is a system address book, but it is empty … Probably did something wrong

Bryan Clark

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