Re: Thunderbird - New Address Book Missing Most Admin Functionality, No Export

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 9:45 AM David C. Rankin < drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: ...

However, addressbook is no longer a stand-alone UI and is now

as a web-page style tab in tbird. So I open it and right-click the address seeking to bring up the context menu with "copy" and "copy with name" entries. The first would copy the raw e-mail address, the latter would copy the

e-mail with, e.g. "John Q. Public" .

The context menu contains no ability to copy any e-mail address or anything else for that matter. Moreover, it is difficult to manually copy

raw e-mail due to attempts to select the address dragging it instead of allowing selection. Only by carefully moving the mouse while watching for

implemented formal the the

cursor change from pointer to I-beam can you even select the e-mail to manually copy it.

I guess the easiest way to copy raw address from address book is to edit entry and copy from E-Mail field. And to copy "name <address>" to click on E-Mail URI and copy from To header. I won't argue that both are just a workaround.

Then I wanted to export my address book (to ldif at least as in the

past),

but the new and improved address book has no export function at all. In fact this prompted a search of all of thunderbird to find out where the export feature was and to my great disappointment the only option that exists is to export the entire profile as a .zip file... WTF??

On TB 102.5 I have export in the address book menu (... after address book name) [image: image.png] And Export... offers [image: image.png]