Comments on: Howto for Thunderbird Address Book integration

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By: Robert Coleman

Robert Coleman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:49:53 +0000

A new post would be great, I’m all for exposure for this ‘problem’! I’m just compiling Thunderbird and providing instructions to make it more accessible, because Address Book integration critical for me – there must be others that want it too..

Unfortunately for it to become part of official Thunderbird releases work needs to be done on the patch, I don’t have the skill to do it so I’m doing what I can.

The problem is Address Book integration isn’t seen as a high priority for the Thunderbird developers and no one from the community has stepped up to take this base provided by the patch up to what is required to make it into official releases.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:35:29 +0000

Whoops. Sorry about the name. Fixed now. I think that this is worth a whole new post in its own right, don’t you?

By: Robert Coleman

Robert Coleman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:16:36 +0000

I know this is an old post, but I’m making this comment for people that find it via search engines.

I’m hosting more up to date builds (ideally weekly) Universal Binary builds of trunk Thunderbird with the Address Book patch applied, these can be found at http://icecube.co.nz/tags/thunderbird

By the way for the original post it “Robert Coleman” not Richard!

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:22:06 +0000

Did you make the changes to Thunderbird’s preferences referred to Stan’s comment above and in Richard’s walkthrough? You need to tell Thunderbird where to find Address Book.

By: Rob Hattersley

Rob Hattersley — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:20:44 +0000

I downloaded TB with patch from http://vafer.org/pub/unofficial-thunderbird-3.0a1-with-addressbook-patch.dmg as suggested, but none of my Mac Address book is showing. Where do I integrate it into TB? (I know it’s read only, but even that would be great!).

Many thanks.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:00:15 +0000

Yep. My bad. I’ve adjusted the post. Sorry about overlooking that.

(sort of)… Perhaps I’m thick, but I can’t get group addressing to work, or open a contact’s info in Address Book by right-clicking on an email address in Thunderbird. That kind of thing.

By: Torsten Curdt

Torsten Curdt — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:27:19 +0000

It’s a bit more verbose – granted …but I was wondering what justifies the “(sort of)” as someone has already noted – I’ve even provided the dmg ;-)

http://vafer.org/blog/tag/thunderbird

By: rhoydotp

rhoydotp — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:37:32 +0000

doh! just made a fool out of myself :( please ignore my ignorance!

By: rhoydotp

rhoydotp — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:32:55 +0000

Just tried it again with the regular TB build and I got it to query the iCal database using the following method:

Tools -> Account Settings -> Composition And Addressing

under Addressing:
Edit Directories -> Add ->

Name: whatever
Server: moz-abOSXdirectory:///
BaseDN:
Port Number: 389
BindDN:

After accepting this, if you try to edit: you will see the following info:

Name: whatever
Server: moz-abOSXdirectory
BaseDN: //:389/
Port Number: -1
BindDN:

Don’t change this.

Go back to:

Tools -> Account Settings -> Composition And Addressing -> Addressing

Choose “Use different LDAP server” and pick the ldap server that you just created.

This worked out pretty well for me.