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Beginner's Guide to email with Thunderbird
#6
/ November 9, 2009 / 3:44 min.
Import contacts to your Thunderbird address book
The Thunderbird address book is where you'll keep all your online and offline contacts organized. If you're making theswitch to Thunderbird
from Outlook, Eudora or another email client you can easilyimport your contacts and even your mail and settings
from said email client.
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- When you first install Thunderbird your Address Book will be empty.
- Click on the Address Book icon in the toolbar.
- You can add contacts one at a time. Click New Card.
- The card that appears has 3 tabs and you can enter a wealth of information for each contact.
- You can also import contacts from a file.
- Every email program offers some way to export your contacts to a file.
Check out our tutorial on exporting your contacts from Outlook Express
- The most common type of file is text-based like LDIF, CSV (comma delimited), Tab delimited, or plain text.
- Once you've exported your contacts from another program you're ready to import into Thunderbird.
- Click Tools and then Import. Indicate that you want to import an Address Book and click Next.
- Select the type of file, in this example CSV, and click Next.
- Find your file, highlight it, and click Open.
- The display you now see has the fields from the imported file on the right, and standard fields on the left.
- Highlight Primary Email on the left and click Move Down until it lines up with Email on the right.
- Do this for any fields you want to import.
- When you're ready click OK.
- Your contacts are imported.
- If your address book listings don't look correct, don't worry.
- Just highlight all of them and press the DEL key. Now reimport and change your settings.
- When you first install Thunderbird your Address Book will be empty.
- Click on the Address Book icon in the toolbar.
- You can add contacts one at a time. Click New Card.
- The card that appears has 3 tabs and you can enter a wealth of information for each contact.
- You can also import contacts from a file.
- Every email program offers some way to export your contacts to a file.
Check out our tutorial on exporting your contacts from Outlook Express
- The most common type of file is text-based like LDIF, CSV (comma delimited), Tab delimited, or plain text.
- Once you've exported your contacts from another program you're ready to import into Thunderbird.
- Click Tools and then Import. Indicate that you want to import an Address Book and click Next.
- Select the type of file, in this example CSV, and click Next.
- Find your file, highlight it, and click Open.
- The display you now see has the fields from the imported file on the right, and standard fields on the left.
- Highlight Primary Email on the left and click Move Down until it lines up with Email on the right.
- Do this for any fields you want to import.
- When you're ready click OK.
- Your contacts are imported.
- If your address book listings don't look correct, don't worry.
- Just highlight all of them and press the DEL key. Now reimport and change your settings.
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