How to display a Birthday from an Address Book Entry in the Calender

[Heinz Kesting]

Hi everyone around here,
Thunderbird 38.5.1

I just started to make use of the address book. I find it very useful to
store the complete address and lots of further information to a contact,
especially the birthday.
Now I expected the contact's birthday entry could be used to show up as
a reminder for the anniversary, but it doesn't seem to work like that.
I only seem to get a reminder from the calender if I create an
appointment -(working with the German UI, here it is called "Termin", I
don't know the correct English description for this, so I hope you know
what I mean)- for that day, but it appears to be stupid to have these
dates stored twice, first in the contact and then once more as an
'appointment'? Is this the way it is supposed to work?

Thank for sharing your experiences on that ...

Kind regards, Heinz

[WaltS48]

This extension might be what you are looking for.

<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/birthday-reminder/?src=api>

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On 2016-01-30 18:51, WaltS48 <thali...@REMOVEaim.com> wrote:

> On 01/30/2016 06:32 PM, Heinz Kesting wrote:
>> Hi everyone around here,
>> Thunderbird 38.5.1
>>
>> I just started to make use of the address book. I find it very useful
>> to store the complete address and lots of further information to a
>> contact, especially the birthday.
>> Now I expected the contact's birthday entry could be used to show up
>> as a reminder for the anniversary, but it doesn't seem to work like that.
>> I only seem to get a reminder from the calender if I create an
>> appointment -(working with the German UI, here it is called "Termin",
>> I don't know the correct English description for this, so I hope you
>> know what I mean)- for that day, but it appears to be stupid to have
>> these dates stored twice, first in the contact and then once more as
>> an 'appointment'? Is this the way it is supposed to work?
>>
>> Thank for sharing your experiences on that ...
>>
>> Kind regards, Heinz
>
> This extension might be what you are looking for.
>
> <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/birthday-reminder/?src=api>

You can also sync your addressBook with gmail using gContactSync, and
then add a Google Calendar using CalDAV and the following URL:
https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/#cont...@group.v.calendar.google.com/events

That Calendar will contain all the birthdays of your gmail contacts.

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[Heinz Kesting]

Hi WaltS48,

>
> This extension might be what you are looking for.
>
> <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/birthday-reminder/?src=api>
>

Yes, it looks quite good, I downloaded and installed it.
For the moment, at first sight, it is doing great, it even creates
birthday reminder entries from the address book and puts them in the
standard calendar with the contact's age correctly calculated, showing
up with an English (not really a problem) hint, saying "Birthday of
Contact Name".
For this, I would have prefered it the other way round, perhaps wishing
it to display "Contact Name Birthday", since in that case the name would
be displayed readable in the calendar's quare. At the moment it reads
only "Birthday of ..." because the square of the calender, when using
the monthly view, is to narrow to display the really interesting part of
the message - its name. But hoovering with the mouse over it dispays
everything instantly. So far not bad, really.
I guess I can't change this behaviour anyway, can I? At least I couldn't
find a setting to switch to another language or change the content which
would be displayed.
I'll play with it the next days and come back here, if I should come
across more questions.

Thanks for this,
Kind regards, Heinz

[Heinz Kesting]

Hi WaltS48,

>
> This extension might be what you are looking for.
>
>
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/birthday-reminder/?src=api>
>

Yes, it looks quite good, I downloaded and installed it.
For the moment, at first sight, it is doing great, it even creates
birthday reminder entries from the address book and puts them in the
standard calendar with the contact's age correctly calculated, showing
up with an English (not really a problem) hint, saying "Birthday of
Contact Name".
For this, I would have prefered it the other way round, perhaps wishing
it to display "Contact Name Birthday", since in that case the name would

be displayed readable in the calendar's square. At the moment it reads

only "Birthday of ..." because the square of the calender, when using
the monthly view, is to narrow to display the really interesting part of

the message - its name. But hoovering with the mouse over it displays

everything instantly. So far not bad, really.
I guess I can't change this behaviour anyway, can I? At least I couldn't
find a setting to switch to another language or change the content which
would be displayed.
I'll play with it the next days and come back here, if I should come
across more questions.

For some rather subjective reasons, I do not like anything that is
connected with Google and GMail in these respects, so I'd like to test
with that solution for the moment.

[WaltS48]

Well, I hope someone will be able to answer those questions.

I don't use the extension myself, only clicked the menu button, selected
Add-ons, and did a search on the term Birthday. That extension was at
the top of the list of 145 items.

Maybe one of the others would be more suitable.

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[Heinz Kesting]

Hi WaltS48,

>
> This extension might be what you are looking for.
>
>
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/birthday-reminder/?src=api>
>

Yes, it looks quite good, I downloaded and installed it right away.

For the moment, at first sight, it is doing great, it even creates

birthday reminder entries from the address book and puts them in my

standard calendar with the contact's age correctly calculated, showing

up with an English (remember I'm using a German UI, but not really a
problem) hint, saying "Birthday of Contact Name, Age: xx".

For this, I would have prefered it the other way round, perhaps wishing

it to display "Contact Name Birthday, Age: xx", since in that case the
name would be displayed readable in the calendar's square straight away.

At the moment it reads only "Birthday of ..." because the square of the

calender, when using the monthly view (to me the most pleasant one), is
too narrow to display the REALLY interesting part of the message - its
name. But hoovering with the mouse over it displays everything

instantly. So far not bad, really.
I guess I can't change this behaviour anyway, can I? At least I couldn't

find a setting to switch to another language or interfere with the

content which would be displayed.
I'll play with it the next days and come back here, if I should come
across more questions.

For some rather subjective reasons, I do not like anything that is
connected with Google and GMail in these respects, so I'd like to test
with that solution for the moment.

[Heinz Kesting]

Hi WaltS48,

> Well, I hope someone will be able to answer those questions.
>
> I don't use the extension myself, only clicked the menu button, selected
> Add-ons, and did a search on the term Birthday. That extension was at
> the top of the list of 145 items.
>
> Maybe one of the others would be more suitable.
>

I just found it - those able to read are certainly better off. It's
there, plain and simple in the configuration tab ... you simply can set
any string you want it to show, German or perhaps Traditional Chinese
.... (gr)

For now, I'm quite happy with that.

Thanks a lot once more.
Kind regards, Heinz

[John Kaufmann]

On 2016-0131 09:53, Nob...@Nowhere.com wrote:
> This message was cancelled from within Mozilla Thunderbird.

Interesting: Anyone know how this cancel <> function works?

[Mike Easter]

John Kaufmann wrote:

> Nobody wrote:
>> This message was cancelled from within Mozilla Thunderbird.
>
> Interesting: Anyone know how this cancel <> function works?

Cancel works and doesn't work. Cancel is a form of control message.

On 'paper' - in theory - a news agent can send a cancel message to a
news server and the server will cancel (conditionally 'hide' rather than
delete) the message.

This condition can result in 'nefarious' misuse/abuse of the cancel
function in which 'anyone' could cancel anyone else's message/s.

Generic news agents such as Tb are designed to 'not allow' its user to
send such a cancel message for any message but those sent by its
originator - but such 'self-limitation' is not sufficient to prevent
abuse, so news servers have a variety of policies to prevent abuse.

A news server could 'honor' the cancel and 'pass it along' or propagate
it to other news servers. A news server could NOT honor, but pass it
along; and a news server could neither honor nor propagate a cancel message.

Another layer of complexity has been introduced to prevent abuse and
facilitate cancels, cancel-lock and cancel-key. This strategy allows a
server to only honor cancels by the 'owner' of the message (who is a
registrant of that server). News servers such as news.individual.net
and eternal-september's employ that strategy.

In addition to cancel-locking, another cancel strategy is that of
'de-spammers' in which a news server gives special privileges to certain
message generators which allows them to cancel whose ever messages they
like as a method for removing spam news messages.

My understanding is that the giga news server which is news.mozilla.org
only honors cancels in the form of 'expired' from certain elevated
moderator accounts.


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