Thunderbird address book
I am looking for suggestion for an address book addon that has these simple features that I had in Eudora. 1. One contact can have multiple email addresses. I put in Joe and both of joe's emails receive the message. 2. I can nest contacts. If I make a list J&J containing joe and jane all I need to do is type J&J in the address and all joe and jane's emails receive the message. I can update Joe or Jane email without having to update the J&J list.
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The TB Address Book has fields for Email and Additional Email. The CardBook add-on has options for more addresses. Both the Email and Additional Email will appear in address autocomplete when you address a new message, but there is no option to automatically add both addresses, which makes sense.
You could create a mailing list with joe and jane as contacts, so that sending to the list sends to both contacts. Or, make a list with all of joe's addresses to send to all of them.
Edits to a contact in an address book are automatically applied to the list contact.
It did not work that way in the past. I will try it. How can I import my address book from Eudora?
Try exporting the address book as a csv and importing to TB. It might help to first edit the csv in a spreadsheet to make it easier to import.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_from_Eudora_(Thunderbird)#Address_books
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Import_address_list_from_text_file
I got the file imported. I had to edit out all the junk in excel first.
But I do not see where TB address book supports nesting. Let me try to explain how it worked in eudora joe has email joe@mail.com and joe1@mail.com under the nickname joe jane has email jane@mail.com and jane1@mail.com under the nickname jane
I make a mail list J&J that contains 'joe' and 'jane'. The list knows to go to joe and jane file to get emails. I can change joe or jane email without having to update the J&J list.
I've never used Eudora, but TB works as described above. There is no 'nesting' of email addresses; contacts can have one or more addresses that are treated independently. Mailing lists are contained in the address book that has all the list contacts; when a contact is added to a list (by drag and drop) only the Email address field is added to the list.
I was hoping for an addon recommendation that would work for me.
I think I have found a solution to my mail list issue. The 'categories' addon seems to do what I need except I have one PC on beta channel and it won't work on that. Trying to figure out how to convert it to normal channel without losing all the data..
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