GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 259214
Automatic import of contacts from Thunderbird
Last modified: 2006-02-15 12:38:27 UTC
I hate to do this, but this is an "I would use your product, BUT:" bug. I would love to use evolution, but I cannot import my Mozilla Thunderbird address book. Mail is less important to me, but it would be nice. I have determined that thunderbird stores its address book in $HOME/.thunderbird/[somenumbers]/abook[-#].mab .
Not yet a direct importer, but you can export from TB and import into Evolution
What format? The LDAP format is the only one thunderbird exports that evo can import, and that crashes it (as long as I can remember on the 1.5.x evo series, still does).
*** bug 274105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yes. It is a problem. I tried to import an ldif from thunderbird and atleast the following fields weren't entered: Addresss City Country I think the problem lies in Evolution expecting some other fields. There's a mapping algorithm in Evolution that doesn't work too well with Thunderbird contacts list. In thunderbird, when you import, it comes up with all the fields in a gui mapper, and you can actually select the fields. In Evolution, since this is absent, there's a problem. I'm working on it, by exporting an addressbook from Evolution (using evolution-addressbook-export) and trying to find out what it expects. hopefully, I'll come up with a way to adapt the thunderbird ldif to import it into evolution.
*** Bug 205624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thunderbird exports in LDIF, CSV and TAB format and we have import support for all of them. So I think the issue is resolved and can be closed as fixed.
As of now no plans of importing directly from .mab files as i dont have any information regrading this particular file format (and dont want to go through thunderbird code just to find out the format). If you have any information about the format let me know. Closing this as wont fix. Try out csv , tab or ldif import and if you find any bug there please file it.
Here's a primer into the MAB format: http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt We can probably reuse the code found at: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/db/mdb/ (The license is the standard GPL/LPGL/MPL of Mozilla.)