Mac Address Book… try Thunderbird Nightly

1. 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…
2. 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!
3. 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.
4. 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…
5. 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
6. Jordan May 14, 2008

   there’s no ldap_2.servers.osx.WHATEVER existing! which version u guys use though?
7. Henrik Skupin May 14, 2008

   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.
8. DUMPLOGGER May 14, 2008

   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
9. DUMPLOGGER May 14, 2008

   sorry henrik, didn’t notice you’ve already replied
10. chris.the.swiss May 14, 2008

    Wow, it worked! Thanks to Henrik Skupin and DUMPLOGGER for the replies. At least I can see my address book now.
11. David Chartier May 14, 2008

    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?
12. DUMPLOGGER May 14, 2008

    you’re right. no editable contacts with TB3 Alpha…
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19. Mitra Ardron May 30, 2008

    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.
20. mpc June 20, 2008

    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.

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