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How can I have separate address books for different email accounts. (using v 45.8)

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BuddiniG
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I have several email accounts configured on Thunderbird and want to restrict email addresses available to different accounts to specific address books. This is to avoid sending emails to wrong people who have the same or similar names. eg. sending official email to a friend's personal email. Currently all addresses are shown for emails composed from any email account. This requires

I have several email accounts configured on Thunderbird and want to restrict email addresses available to different accounts to specific address books. This is to avoid sending emails to wrong people who have the same or similar names. eg. sending official email to a friend's personal email. Currently all addresses are shown for emails composed from any email account. This requires

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If your aim is to have separate address books be the source of address autocomplete when you're composing messages from each account, see this post.

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sfhowes
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If your aim is to have separate address books be the source of address autocomplete when you're composing messages from each account, see this post.