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Re: [opensuse] Importing an addressbook into Thunderbird 5.0
- From: Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:24:51 +0300
- Message-id: <4E17F433.1090502@hashkedim.com>
On 07/05/2011 11:49 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Many (several hundred) of the records lack a Display Name. Referring back to kmail, I see that they don't have one there either -- for whatever reason, they have only a first and last name -- but kmail is smart enough to rely on those, and the record is displayed as though there is a Display Name. Thunderbird, on the other hand, seeing only first and last names, displays the user name of the record's email address. I'm sure this is very clever (no, I'm not), but it is also unhelpful in cases where the username is something like happygardener2463, so these have to be fixed.
The displayed list shows only Work telephone numbers; to see Home numbers, the record has to be opened.
The default formating option is "Unknown", and has to be set individually to "HTML" or "Plain Text" for each record. I never send HTML messages, but I have not found a way to set "Plain Text" globally. I will have to do this for all 600+ records individually, to make TB stop asking me what I want to do.
The developers of the TB address book did not invest a lot of thought in its design.
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Stan Goodman said the following on 07/05/2011 04:37 PM:I've been using the address book that had been exported as ldif from kmail. It needs a lot of work:
Your procedure is not clear. You started with what kind of file? WhichNo, this was very NOT recent
you imported into (maybe) Outlook, then it gets blurry. Can you detail it?
Before I made this attempt with Vcard, I tried with an .ldif file.Right.
Then why go through all of that, since TB knows how to import it directly?Ah, that seems familiar. I think that was the format I hand carried across.
But that wasn't what I started with.
That was when I ended up with and as you said, imported directly.
Once I had converted to that format.
I recall the conversion involved using Outlook on a borrowed Windows
machine but don't recall the details.
I only did it once and I think it was the kind of stress induced trauma
that causes amnesia. (Using windows often does that to me.)
Many (several hundred) of the records lack a Display Name. Referring back to kmail, I see that they don't have one there either -- for whatever reason, they have only a first and last name -- but kmail is smart enough to rely on those, and the record is displayed as though there is a Display Name. Thunderbird, on the other hand, seeing only first and last names, displays the user name of the record's email address. I'm sure this is very clever (no, I'm not), but it is also unhelpful in cases where the username is something like happygardener2463, so these have to be fixed.
The displayed list shows only Work telephone numbers; to see Home numbers, the record has to be opened.
The default formating option is "Unknown", and has to be set individually to "HTML" or "Plain Text" for each record. I never send HTML messages, but I have not found a way to set "Plain Text" globally. I will have to do this for all 600+ records individually, to make TB stop asking me what I want to do.
The developers of the TB address book did not invest a lot of thought in its design.
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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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