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This is additional information to a previous question. Addresses imported from windows mail will not work, but addresses gathered inside Thunderbird will work

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I had a few collected addresses in the Thunderbird mail address book prior to importing my Windows mail address book . These can be entered properly, but none of the addresses imported from windows mail can be entered into any of the Thunderbird mail address lines.

prd1

I had a few collected addresses in the Thunderbird mail address book prior to importing my Windows mail address book . These can be entered properly, but none of the addresses imported from windows mail can be entered into any of the Thunderbird mail address lines. prd1

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The usual reason for this is that addresses imported from somewhere else have been entered into inappropriate fields in Thunderbird's Address Book; typically email addresses are filled into the nickname field.

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Zenos said

The usual reason for this is that addresses imported from somewhere else have been entered into inappropriate fields in Thunderbird's Address Book; typically email addresses are filled into the nickname field.

This was the problem. Thanks for following up.

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The above response from Mozilla was the problem. thanks for following up with me,.

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