Comments on: Mac Address Book… try Thunderbird Nightly

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?

By: chris.the.swiss

chris.the.swiss — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:06:22 +0000

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

By: Boemer

Boemer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:46:37 +0000

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…

By: Henrik Skupin

Henrik Skupin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:16:24 +0000

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.

By: Adam Dempsey

Adam Dempsey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:20:26 +0000

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

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:44:08 +0000

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…