How to search email contacts like in Outlook

Parag Kalra

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Mar 13, 2011, 8:31:58 PM3/13/11

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I have moved to Mac and started using Thunderbird. On outlook I do
'CTRL K' to search a email contact on the exchange server.

Is there any similar shortcut for Thunderbird?

TIA

Parag

Greywolf

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Mar 13, 2011, 10:03:19 PM3/13/11

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What exchange server????

TB has an address book system. You can have as many address books as you
like, with duplicate contacts if that's useful to you. The addresses can
be sorted various ways, eg, I sort mine First Name, Last Name. Unless
you have hundreds of contacts, that's good enough, a quick scroll down
will find whom you're looking for.

If you are referring to your company's contact list held by your
company's mail service, that's a different issue. Take it up with your
IT people, they should know.

HTH
Wolf K.

Keith Nuttle

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Mar 13, 2011, 11:08:31 PM3/13/11

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You can search TB's address book. Open the address book either from
Tools or cntrl shift B

The search window is in the upper right of the window above the column
headers. You must search each address book.

Andrew DeFaria

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Mar 14, 2011, 12:07:39 AM3/14/11

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On Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:03:19 PM UTC-7, Greywolf wrote:
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> What exchange server????

Whatever exchange server. You create an "address book directory" - see http://www.archstoneapartments.com/. Getting the information to fill in is the difficult par.

Andrew DeFaria

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Mar 14, 2011, 11:35:57 AM3/14/11

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Sorry, had the wrong URL in my cut buffer. Try http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=150576 and perhaps http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1516355

David L. Ross

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Jul 8, 2011, 3:36:57 PM7/8/11

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To search for addresses on another computer/server they have to be LDAP
accessible. As to if your IT folks do/are willing/can even make the
address book on your exchange server available via LDAP, that's a
question for them.

tod...@gmail.com

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Apr 24, 2014, 6:54:28 PM4/24/14

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It's amusing how many people replied to this question without actually answering it. Parag Kalra didn't ask how to use LDAP. The question was specifically about Thunderbird - the client - and not about Exchange or any other LDAP server. In Outlook, when you enter the first part of an address on the To: line of a message and then hit Ctrl+K, it does an LDAP query to attempt to auto-complete the address. This is client-side behavior.

The question was what the equivalent keyboard shortcut is in Thunderbird? Keith gave the only answer to that question, though it was a little roundabout. I believe the answer is, "In Thunderbird, there is no direct equivalent to Outlook's Ctrl+K feature."

Christian Riechers

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Apr 25, 2014, 12:44:56 PM4/25/14

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That's correct. You don't have to hit a key or shortcut in Thunderbird.
Just start typing, and Thunderbird will show hits from whatever address
books you have. That can include hits from a LDAP directory.

--
Christian

schit...@gmail.com

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Sep 9, 2014, 1:04:45 PM9/9/14

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parag,
did you get the answer for this. I am also looking for the same answer.
in outlook we can get emails by ctrl K. but what is the similar thing in gmail. its really stupid in gmail.