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Shared address books with Thunderbird

Asked by tdn

Hi

I use Thunderbird on different computers. I would like to be able to use a central shared address book.
I looked into using LDAP. I even installed and configured an OpenLDAP server for storing address books, when I found out that Thunderbird does not support editing contacts over LDAP[1]. This makes an LDAP address book pretty useless then...

I hope you can help.

I am looking forward to hearing your suggestions.

Thanks.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86405 The bug is nearly 10 years old. So I am not optimistic about anyone implementing it.

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Federico Vera (fedevera) said : 		#1

Hi! have you tried looking in Thunderbird addons?
Take a look at this one, it seems what you are looking for: https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/thunderbird/addon/2533

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

Ideas
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16866/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2708/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28/

Option
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=75218

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=540330

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books

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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) said : 		#5

I will read your links. Thanks.

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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) said : 		#6

> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=540330

How is this related to my question?

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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) said : 		#7

How are the link to oooforum.org related to what I am asking for?

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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) said : 		#8

Federico Vera, I will try your add-on.

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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) said : 		#9

Federico Vera, apparently the sync add-on does not work.

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Federico Vera (fedevera) said : 		#10

there's a warning on the page stating that if you are using Thunderbird 3 you need to use the new version http://www.ggbs.de/extensions/

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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) said : 		#11

I use Thunderbird 2.

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Federico Vera (fedevera) said : 		#12

Then give a try with Sam's link http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books it seems to have some interesting ideas (besides is the official Thunderbird database)

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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) said : 		#13

Ok. Thanks.