How I uploaded my Thunderbird address book to Frontier web mail

Todd and Margo Chester

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Aug 11, 2012, 8:46:29 PM8/11/12

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Hi All,

Not asking for help here.

I figured this out on one of my customer's site and thought
I would share it with you all as you guys are always helping me
with things.

How to upload a Thunderbird address book to Frontier's web mail:

Problem: Frontier's import utility is expecting Outlook's CSV format
and will leave off eMail addresses from Thunderbird's CSV
files, importing names only. So ...

1) Export your desired Address Book from Thunderbird as a CSV file

2) open the resulting CSV file. Alter the title in row one, column
five ("E") from Thunderbird's "Primary Email" to Outlook's
"E-mail Address"

3) open Frontier's web mail and import from Desktop eMail clients (.csv).

Mike Easter

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Aug 11, 2012, 9:41:30 PM8/11/12

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Todd wrote:

> 2) open the resulting CSV file. Alter the title in row one, column
> five ("E") from Thunderbird's "Primary Email" to Outlook's
> "E-mail Address"

Presumably you would open the .csv and do the title tweak in something
like MS Office's Excel or such as the opensource Office spreadsheet app
Calc.

--
Mike Easter

Todd and Margo Chester

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Aug 12, 2012, 1:15:01 AM8/12/12

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Libre Office Cals, Open Office Calc, mousepad, leafpad, notepad, vi
etc..

It is a text file.

MalcolmW

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Aug 26, 2012, 6:17:34 PM8/26/12

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On 12/08/2012 01:46, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:

> 1) Export your desired Address Book from Thunderbird as a CSV file

PMFJI but I have ask how? I am trying to do exactly that and assume
that I need to follow the procedure:

1. Open TB's Address Book
2. Click Tools | Export to open the Export Address Book dialogue
3. Navigate to and open the default profile to find the Address Book is
not displayed (Is the address book the MAB (abook.mab) file I can see in
the profile from Windows Explorer?

I must be missing something! Please advise.

Chris Ramsden

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Aug 26, 2012, 6:27:37 PM8/26/12

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From: MalcolmW <mewa...@uwclub.net>
Date: Sun 26 Aug 2012 23:17
To: support-t...@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: How I uploaded my Thunderbird address book to Frontier web
mail

> On 12/08/2012 01:46, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>
>> 1) Export your desired Address Book from Thunderbird as a CSV file
>
> PMFJI but I have ask how? I am trying to do exactly that and assume
> that I need to follow the procedure:
>
> 1. Open TB's Address Book

Select an address book to export

> 2. Click Tools | Export to open the Export Address Book dialogue
> 3. Navigate to and open the default profile to find the Address Book is
> not displayed (Is the address book the MAB (abook.mab) file I can see in
> the profile from Windows Explorer?

No. Here you are being asked to provide a name and location for the
exported file. You have already selected the address book to be exported.

Note the file picker dialog allows you to select LDIF or CSV; it
defaults to LDIF.

Chris.

MalcolmW

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Aug 26, 2012, 6:38:48 PM8/26/12

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Thank you - much appreciated. Even after 20 years I still find it,
occasionally, a luxury to understand computer dialogues.

Malcolm