IT/Software/Applications/Thunderbird

AddressBook Synchronization

Using rsync and abook files across the LAN

1. The address books are stored in an old format called a markaby script.
   1. Old does not mean bad. Though in my personal case there is some statistical evidence to say it does.
2. When you first start you will find an addressbook called All Addressbooks and inside of that Personal and Collected.
   1. abook.mab is the default created 'Personal Address Book'
   2. history.mab is default created 'Collected Addresses'
   3. other.mab files are ones you created.
      1. they will appear as imap1.mab and so on.
   4. Thanks

Using Cardbook

1. This is an extension that syncs beautifully with NextCloud
2. Use WebDav and is active(Oct 2020) being developed

Deployment

Sometimes you get stuck on an older version.

Thunderbird is now only downloadable as a tar.bz.2 or something.

Download and extract to a folder. Run from the thunderbird executable.

I recommend you put all the contents in the .thunderibird directory.

You will need to add a .desktop file for this to appear in the applications launcher.

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=Thunderbird

Exec=/home/walt/.thunderbird/thunderbird

Icon=/home/walt/.thunderbird/icons/thunderbird.png

Type=Application

terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Categories=Application;Network;Email; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto;application/x-xpinstall; StartupNotify=true

Troubleshooting

Menu Bar below toolbar

some versions of Thunderbird have the Menu(File, Edit. . . ) below the toolbar(Write, Reply . . . )

click settings>general and scroll down to config editor

- search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and change to true

You need to create a chrome folder in profile, and a userChrome.css file in the folder (with content shown below).

- exit and restart TB and it should work,

/*  #######    */
@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");
#toolbar-menubar {
  order: 1;             
}
unified-toolbar {
  order: 2;             
}
#tabs-toolbar {
  order: 3;              
}