Thunderbird and Address Book

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abel_magwitch

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Does anyone know of a way to get Thunderbird and Address Book (the one that comes with MacOSX) to synch automatically or read from the same file?

Cheers,

Abel
 
You might contact the Thunderbird for Mac development group at Mozilla and ask that be included in a future release of the product. That would probably require a substantial deviation from the code base for the Mac version, but if there were enough interest it could certainly be done.

Since it is an open source community they may offer to let you have the source code so you can make the modifications yourself.
 
correct me if i'm wrong, but _because_ it is an open source community (or at least gpl'd) they _have_ to let you have the source code.

good luck.
 
there is already a bugzilla entry requesting this in Thunderbird for Mac

perhaps you could use one of those utils that share your address book via LDAP and then use LDAP from within Thunderbird??
 
Thanks for the responses. I like the idea of sharing via ldap - I might just go looking for one of those utilities of which you speak, Pengu. Unfortunately I've never got into coding so the idea of editing the code is out.

Glad to know that I'm not the only one looking for it - anyone with a palm device wants to be able to synch address books with their mail client. I've got thunderbird on my work PC and iBook and am about to put it on my blue and white G3 at home and I'd like to be able to use my palm to provide address book consistency. I've found some sites that talk about Thunderbird's ability to synch with palm devices, but that only seems to be on previous releases (prior to version 1.0). Hopefully the next build will both synch with Address Book and palm devices. The PC is a whole other problem I can do nothing about until a new version of Thunderbird is released. No way I'm going back to Outlook though!
 
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