Questions tagged [address-book]

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How to I extract the autocomplete email addresses stored in Outlook for general use?

Many people at my org don't use Outlook's contacts features, so they have none to export. Instead they rely on the autocomplete list. I'm not asking about how to transfer this list as-is, e.g. when ...
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Disable iPhone Yahoo contacts sync

Every time I plug in my iPhone, iTunes pops up a dialog asking for sync with Yahoo contacts. after I cancel, it pops up again, for 4-5 more times. But the 'Sync Yahoo!Address Book contacts' option is ...
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how can I extract/harvest/export all sender addresses from outlook 2003?

I'd like to build a list of all the people who email me but can't figure out a way of doing it. Tools such as Xobni offer a list, but it is not possible to select the data from the 'analytics'. How ...
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How to prevent addresses being automatically added to Address Book in the Mac OS X Mail.app?

Is there any way to disable the feature where Mail.app on OS X 10.6 will automatically add addresses into the address book when replying to an email from someone not in your address book already? I ...
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Get cell value from Outlook/Exchange address book into Excel

There is a document for use in an employee performance review. A manager and employee are named on the form. I have used a drop-down list to select a name and =VLOOKUP() to get the email address and ...
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Need Address Book to Appear in ALL Dual Boot Operating Systems

My main computer has 3 O/S's (WinXP, Win7, and Win10) on separate partitions. I initially (YEEAARS ago) set up Thunderbird in XP. Added a Win7 partition (maybe 2010 or so) using the T-Bird e-mail ...
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Fill contacts from Inbox

Sometimes it is annoying when Outlook can't find recipient and autocomplete with address. Is it possible somehow to ask Outlook to fill up my contacts from send and received folders?
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How do you efficently copy recipients from old email to create a new mail/conversation in Thunderbird?

I am specially interested in a solutions for Thunderbird. Currently I don't know of any efficient way to copy the recipients from an old mail to start a new conversation. As there are currently many ...
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CardDAV password not saved in Thunderbird, not connecting to remote address book

I am following the guide to connect Zoho Contacts CardDAV to Thunderbird 102.1.2 (64-bit) address book: https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/zoho-contacts/articles/carddav-11-5-2021#CardDAV_for_Windows ...
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Remove Thunderbird's (empty) Personal Address Book

How is it possible to remove Thunderbirds Personal Address Book (PAB)? It's empty and I don't use it because I use Googles address book. The respective file in my profile, abook.mab is not listed in ...
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Thunderbird's CardDAV Address book is not syncing Google Contacts with labels in 2023

Thunderbird (v.102 and surrounding) has a wonderful feature - It supports a Google Contacts Address Book synced via CardDAV. This works without any add-ons. The problem I have is that it only ...
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Override an email address coming from the organizational Outlook address book

So, I work in an educational organization which uses Outlook, with the mail hosted by Microsoft. I run the desktop app (version 2210), and as is typical we have a large list of users in the ...
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Search Active Directory

How can I search the active directory and get more than 100 results using the Address Book? Currently, if I search for "m", I get a message informing me that "there are too many entries in the ...
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How to make Thunderbird suggest favorite contacts first when sending mails?

My Thunderbird client is connected to the rather large LDAP directory of our company. When I start typing in the "To:" field, it lists all matching LDAP entries alphabetically. This list is very long ...
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How to import VCF 2.1 files (from Samsung phone) into Thunderbird

I exported a VCF 2.1 file from my Samsung phone (an A11 phone, using android 10, and the native contact software. There are 500+ contacts. Now, I want to import that contact list into Thunderbird; I ...
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How do I get back an Outlook 2010 address book that is missing from TO: dialog?

The following issue is with Outlook 2010 after an upgrade from Outlook 2007. Not sure if the upgrade is the cause, but the user believes that to be the case. In the list of contacts, we have a ...
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Outlook 2013 "sender is in ... Address Book" rule breaks all subsequent rules

Using Outlook 2013 desktop app in Windows 10 with an Exchange server. I'm trying to create rules that sort emails into folders based, among other things, on the sender. Once upon a time I put lists of ...
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How can I export a Windows Contact Group to CSV?

In Windows Vista I am using Windows Contacts. I have a contact group: C:\Users\Me\Contacts\club.group. I want to switch to use a service like MailChimp, ConstantContact, etc., those services can ...
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IBM Notes: Where can I select the adress books chosen for autocomplete?

When using the autocomplete-function for email addresses, Notes seems to reliably choose the most unhelpful entry from the most unrelated address book possible. About 90% of my mails go to recipients ...
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Send an email to a group excluding a member in Thunderbird

I use Thunderbird on my MacBook-Pro and sync my contacts from gmail to Mac OS X's address book, then I make some groups of friends in my address book, in Thunderbird I can use this group in send field ...
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The public folder was created on Outlook did not display on Address Book

In my Outlook, I created some public folders, and other users (within the same exchange server) saw them. But, when I click to drop down Address Book on Outlook, I cannot see the public folders here. ...
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Change Outlook's Default Address Book for multiple users

When Outlook is configured with an Exchange account, the default address book is the Global Address List. As a result, when a user clicks the To.. button in a new email, Microsoft Outlook displays the ...
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Thunderbird and Office 365 address book

I try to connect to use Thunderbird instead of the Outlook 2016, connected to Office 365. I can send and receive the mails, but the problem is the Address Contacts. I am not an network expert, so ...
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With Thunderbird, how to keep track of >2 email addresses for the same person?

Mozilla Thunderbird's address book only supports an "email" and an "alternate email" field, not an unbounded list - and not even, say, 4 addresses, which is not uncommon for someone with some kind of ...
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Why has my GroupWise stopped auto-completing the "To:" address field?

I used to have auto-completion for addresses in the "To:" field, when sending an email in GroupWise... For some reason, now it doesn't work and I have to bring up the address book each time to add ...
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How to get Thunderbird to collect addresses from not-already-downloaded IMAP messages?

I've created a new Thunderbird account to work with an IMAP account of mine on some mail server. I have all the message headers downloaded now, not all the bodies, and have read a couple of messages. ...
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Mac OS Outlook Adress Book Sync

I have a couple of Mac OS X High Sierra clients with microsoft outlook installed. We are using an on-premise exchange 2016 server and I am encountering some problems with the address book of said ...
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How to search Outlook Exchange Global Address List with Wildcards?

Our exchange GAL contains many group addresses, and it's hard to find a certain group contains for example "ABC". In the Contacts tab in outlook there is no option to search for a name that contains ...
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Migrate from Outlook Contacts (Address Book) to something with rich text in Notes [closed]

In the Contacts (Address Book) part of Outlook for Mac 2011, I use rich text formatting (including links) for Notes. I'd like to migrate away from Microsoft to something that is open source. From ...
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How to synchonise address books across multiple PC's

I am using Thunderbird 15.0.1 on two different Windows computers (Vista and Win 7). I maintain the email list for a local club, and often need to send out emails to all members from my home and office ...
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Making Address Labels with Microsoft Word

How can I make address labels with MS Word 2002? I would like to import my address book from Outlook and print a bunch of address labels to put on envelopes (one label per address). I know how to ...
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How can I merge Address Books in Outlook 2013?

In Outlook 2013, my Address Book has a drop-down showing three books: Contacts, Contacts, and Suggested Contacts: I want to merge the contents of the two "Contacts" books. How can I do this?
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How do you add a recipient to a mail from outlook address book when contact does not have a name?

Here is an image of me trying to add a contact to the current mail As you can see outlook 2013 just adds the ; separator but not the email address. When I add a display name I can add the recipient, ...
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Is there a way to unsync contacts from Outlook that came from a particular source, specificly Dynamics CRM?

So I installed the Dynamics CRM Client for Outlook and wired up a client's CRM to do some work for them. Unbeknownst to me, Microsoft decided to auto-opt-in the Contact sync to the Outlook Address ...
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What address book / CRM for Windows do you use? [closed]

I wish to have an address book where I can also record information about people and my interaction with them. What services/software do you find useful for this task? How and Why?
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How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?

How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?
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desktop mailing list management [closed]

can you advise mailing list management software. my criteria are as follows: cross platform (mac & windows) address book segmentation (send to groups of people) personalisation (dear %name%) ...
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Create contact list by extracting recipients from e-mails

In 2012, on Thunderbird, I used an add-on to create an address list by extracting all recipients found in emails folders. But, I have reinstalled everything, and I do not remember how I did it... ...
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Does CardDAV support contact groups?

Does CardDAV support contact groups/mailing lists, i.e. a feature to group several contacts into one group? I searched the Internet for a while, but could not find a reliable answer. Seems some ...
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Skype invasion of privacy?

I'm using Skype for Windows Desktop. I also use Gmail and keep contacts there. Today I see that Skype has added about 30 potential contacts that read something like "Alex. Not connected on Skype yet" ...
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Mac: How to sync specific address book contacts with a business partner?

I have a mac and an iPhone. My friend has a mac and an iPhone. We both use those devices privately and for our shared business. I wonder what's the best and easiest way to sync address book contacts ...
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Support OSX vCard extensions on Windows/Thunderbird

Let me explain. The built-in address book client in OSX (Contacts.app) allows you to create groups of contacts on a CardDAV server. The way it does this is that it uploads on the server a vCard that ...
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Finding email addresses in Thunderbird

often I find myself wanting to send an email from Thunderbird to someone I don't have the address. But I do have emails where this person's email is in the cc. So if I use the search bar in ...
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Microsoft Outlook 2013 People Search changing layout to show phone number

I don't maintain a contact list in Outlook, but all the staff in my organisation are available through the directory and can be searched using the sidebar tool as below. People Search Tool: I find ...
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Vista Address Book Gadget--Can you copy to another Vista computer?

I have a Vista 64-bit desktop and want to copy the Address book gadget, which includes all my Outlook contact information, to my Vista laptop, which does not have Outlook (due to Microsoft install ...
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Fetch GPG public keys for thunderbird address book contacts

I just started using GPG in Thunderbird 17 (via enigmail). Now I want to fill my private key database with all the keys of other people that use mail encryption as well. One way, other than asking ...
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How do I read data from my Address Book card from the command line?

From a Mac OS command line, I'm looking for a command that will read my address book card and print my email address to stdout. Doing it via an osascript command would be fine.
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Find suggested contact by email domain name

I've been searching and searching for this and cannot find a solution. It baffles me totally. In the suggested contacts list for Outlook 2010, how do I get it to search by "domain name"? For example,...
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Import Thunderbird's Address Book into Yosemite's Mail app

I need to Import Thunderbird's Address Book into Yosemite's Mail app. I tried from Thunderbird (last OS X version) to export all addresses to different formats (CSV, LDIF, etc) but none of them can be ...
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Synchronize iPhone contacts with Windows 7 PC, without using iTunes

I want to copy my iPhone 3G contacts to my Windows 7 PC without going through iTunes. When this is completed, I'll purchase an iPhone 4s that I would then like to synchronise with my PC contacts. ...