Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20088
Does Not Detect Mozilla Thunderbird Address Book
Last modified: 2006-05-31 14:29:06 UTC
Tools | Data Sources | Data Source Administration cannot find the Mozilla Thunderbird Address Book. An error alert that says in part "No connection could be established..." results. The Mozilla browser suite stores its address book (abook.mab) within a folder called Mozilla. The Thunderbird address book (also abook.mab) is stored within a folder called Thunderbird.
confirm, set target, change defect to enhancement and send to right developer.
Hi, same Problem with Linux. abook.mab location: /home/ridcully/.thunderbird/2353473.slt/abook.mab
You can add these lines to your prefs.js to make your mozilla 1.0 to support thunderbird address book in windows os(remomeber use right count of "..\\"): user_pref("ldap_2.servers.thunderbird.description", "Thundbird Address Book"); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.thunderbird.dirType", 2); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.thunderbird.filename", "..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\Your ThunderBird Profiles Path\\abook.mab"); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.thunderbird.isOffline", false); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.thunderbird.position", 10); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.thunderbird.replication.lastChangeNumber", 0); Maybe we can use this way to access thunderbird address in OOo.
change subcomponent to 'none'
Migrate to a new account for security reasons.
changing OS to "ALL" as this is a linux issue as well.
in cws mozab05
Also would it be possible for OpenOffice to see the address book used in incredimail?
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/basic_rules.html#one_per_issue - feel free to submit a issue dedicated to incredimail support.
fixed in mozab05
reopen to reassign
assign to qa
fixed in CWS mozab05
*** Issue 42341 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Hi, verified in cws mozab05 Bye Marc
OOo 2 Beta (1.9.79) still doesn't seem to work with the addressbook of Thunderbird. I'm a bit confused, because the issue is marked as "fixed". Will it work in 00o 2 final? Or am I the only one who still runs into this problem?
http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/23338/034.html
OOo 2 Beta (1.9.87) still doesn't seem to work with the addressbook of Thunderbird. I can choose the Mozilla Thunderbird Adressbook as Database source, but i can't do any Field assignment. Am I the only one who still runs into this problem?
No, you aren't. The addressbook-assistant of OpenOffice 2 Beta didn't find my Thunderbird Adressbooks when I choose Mozilla-Addressbook and I'm not able to choose a path for the addressbook.
fasse, you can explicitely choose Thunderbird Addressbook now under external data-sources, I think that is what mathiasotto did. Yes, Mathias, it's also buggy for me, no field-assignment possible and no database-file gets saved. If you are looking for a workaround (rather than just report the bug): for me it's possible to register the thunderbird-addressbook as a general type of external data-source (rather than "the" address-source). Once you saved a database-file for that, you can point the address-book wizard to the allready existing database-file. After that, when you use the mail-merge wizard, you can assign fields. Best .r.
Hi, fixed in current developer build ( tested m91 ) -> close. The current developer build can be found at http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html Feel free to reopen if this issue is not fixed in the developer build. Bye Marc
I hate to be picky, but isn't it premature to advertised 'CLOSED' when the cited build isn't yet up on the mirrors? You say 'fixed in m91' however only m87 is available as of this date/time. OK, no I don't really hate being picky.
Hi, I checked m91, something changed, it's close to o.k. now, but still with little problems. Maybe it's a bug in the 'Address-book data-source-WIZARD' now - that's where I tried it the first time. I could select a profile, fine. As to the table I selected after that (out of my 3 thunderbird-address-tables) a) I couldn't do field-assignment the first time b) it didn't stick (when I later ran the mail-merge-wizard no address-table was preselected) and c) I use German Ooo: my address-book is called Persönliches Adreßbuch - the Umlaut ö and 'ß' are represented as '('. So after adding the necessary selections in mail-merge-wizard everything works and sticks. Only the cosmetical ö=( issue remains. Best .r.
could you please file separate issues for the problems which you are still encounter? They do not really fit in here, since this is about general support of Thunderbird. Thanks :)
I am working with OOo 1.9.121. I still can'make connection with Thunderbird (as was also the case with ALL previous builds and versions).I think the "defect" has not been "enhanced". Can this be fixed (again?), please? I'd simply like to use within OOo any of the many Thunderbird Address books that I have (without having to become a programmer to do that). Many thanks.
Hello, We have the exactly same report from Windows XP Proffesional, OpenOffice.org 680m145 and Thunderbird 1.0.7 and we also noticed a lot of reports from other similar configurations with this problem too. According our users, there isn't problem under Linux now, only under Windows. Would be well to change OS from 'All' to 'Windows XP' and REOPEN this issue. Thanks. -- Martin Kozák (CS User Support Leader)