Comments on: Mac Address Book… try Thunderbird Nightly

By: Daniel Harwood

Daniel Harwood — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:11:00 +0000

Bryan, thanks, excellent article. As a matter of interest I was using a build of TB2 to get Mac OS X Address Book integration, when I installed TB3 it appears to have integrated the TB2 prefs file, but in TB2 the ldap_2.servers.osx.uri was capitalised – and worked – but in TB3 the capitalised entry did not work. Edited the entry to remove the capitalisation and hey presto! Thanks again!

By: Bernd

Bernd — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:03:35 +0000

Hi guys,
A simple (I hope) question. Now that I switched to Thunderbird 3.0 (Shredder), did the config change and that stuff…how do I set the system addresss book as default? When I click on the Address Book Icon I can see indeed the Personal Address Book, the System Address Book and the Collected Addresses, but when I try to add a new address from a received email, it goes by default to the Collected Addresses. Any clues? Thanks!

By: Nasendackel 3.0 : Thunderbird und das MacOS Adressbuch

Nasendackel 3.0 : Thunderbird und das MacOS Adressbuch — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:50:58 +0000

[...] ergänzen wir (rechte Maustaste → neu) folgende Einträge: ldap_2.servers.osx.description → System Address Book (string) ldap_2.servers.osx.dirType [...]

By: Novell Evolution on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) « Panyasan’s Random Musings

Novell Evolution on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) « Panyasan’s Random Musings — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:19:44 +0000

[...] real alternative to Evolution’s address book and then closely integrated in the system. Until Thunderbird 3’s access to the Mac OS Address book is available, I can use the LDAP server as a [...]

By: nameless2k

nameless2k — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:28:55 +0000

No it one way only. Thunderbirds only gains READ access to MacOS X’ system addressbook. More details and very detailed instruction set with pictures may be found over there: http://news.metaparadigma.de/?p=260

Enjoy, nl2k

By: mpc

mpc — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:51:08 +0000

Displays nicely, so that you can use OSX address book for addressing/sending Emails – that’s great!
BUT is this real integration – can you add/store addresses to the OSX book from your Tbird messages? I can’t (it puts them in my ‘Personal Address Book’; perhaps I’m doing something wrong.

By: Mitra Ardron

Mitra Ardron — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:17:32 +0000

Note that on TB 2, the string
“moz-abOSXdirectory:///”
worked fine and was what was recommended, on TB3 that string will block seeing any address books, AND not show you OSX. It has to be lower case.

By: Bryan Clark » Blog Archive » Standard8 has your name

Bryan Clark » Blog Archive » Standard8 has your name — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:18:28 +0000

[...] used to be an awkward set of instructions is about to become as simple as a [...]

By: Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla’s E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 | Networking for Networkers

Tue, 20 May 2008 19:50:19 +0000

[...] The OS X version of Thunderbird 3 is now a native Cocoa app, meaning it can integrate with the Mac OS X address book, a much-requested feature. Unfortunately that functionality doesn’t appear to available by default yet either, but if you want to turn it on and test it out, Bryan Clark has posted some instructions. [...]

By: First Look at Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 [Screenshot Tour] | Another Way To Be Rich

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:37:14 +0000

[...] the native OS X Address Book. This rough feature is disabled by default, but developer Bryan Clark posts a work-around for the [...]

By: First Look at Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 [Screenshot Tour] · TechBlogger

First Look at Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 [Screenshot Tour] · TechBlogger — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:40 +0000

[...] the native OS X Address Book. This rough feature is disabled by default, but developer Bryan Clark posts a work-around for the [...]

By: First Look at Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1

First Look at Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:14:32 +0000

[...] the native OS X Address Book. This rough feature is disabled by default, but developer Bryan Clark posts a work-around for the adventurous. A few more features look promising in Thunderbird 3, but I wasn’t able to grab [...]

By: חדשות מוזילה » Blog Archive » שוחררה גירסת אלפא ראשונה של Thunderbird 3

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:20:18 +0000

[...] מפנקס הכתובות של OS X. תכונה זו מנוטרלת כברירת מחדל; ראו כאן למידע [...]

By: DUMPLOGGER

DUMPLOGGER — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:03:32 +0000

you’re right. no editable contacts with TB3 Alpha…

By: David Chartier

David Chartier — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:54:35 +0000

I didn’t see this explicitly stated anywhere so I figured I’d check on the topic: I got this working, but it appears that Address Book entries are not actually editable from within Thunderbird 3.1 alpha. Is this correct?

By: chris.the.swiss

chris.the.swiss — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:40:51 +0000

Wow, it worked! Thanks to Henrik Skupin and DUMPLOGGER for the replies. At least I can see my address book now.

By: DUMPLOGGER

DUMPLOGGER — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:29:23 +0000

sorry henrik, didn’t notice you’ve already replied

By: DUMPLOGGER

DUMPLOGGER — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:28:02 +0000

Here is the solution for not finding any values with OSX in.

CREATE NEW VALUES
“ldap_2.servers.osx.description” -> “System Address Book”
“ldap_2.servers.osx.dirType” -> 3
“ldap_2.servers.osx.uri” -> “moz-abosxdirectory:///”

1. string
2. integer
3. string

ENJOY

By: Henrik Skupin

Henrik Skupin — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:39:11 +0000

You have to manually create the not existing preferences. Do that by using the context menu within the list of preferences. After you have created all these entries it should work.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:25:54 +0000

there’s no ldap_2.servers.osx.WHATEVER existing! which version u guys use though?