Hello,
Do you know how I can get my imported Contacts to be recognized
by Thunderbird?
They were imported successfully, but they're in a separate file,
and it appears that Thunderbird does not recognize them. When I
try typing in an address in a new message, it is not automatically
filled in the way addresses are from my Collected Addresses, the
ones I got by simply replying to messages. Also, unlike those in
my Collected Addresses, I cannot arrow through them and read their
names, although I can edit them if I hit Enter on each one. I can
search them though, so it appears that Thunderbird knows they are
there, but won't fill them in when I start typing an email
address.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Evan
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On 7/7/2020 1:30 AM, Billy Inglis
wrote:
Hi guys, I have a different
issue with thunderbird. Wonder if anyone can help.
When I try to access the option menus, the
menus come up all right, but there is no buttons at the bottom
of the page to save changes you make.
Anyone know what is happening here. I am
using the latest version, Billy
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Thanks Sam, that did the job.
I must have misheard something, or misunderstood something I
heard. I did have an older version of the Import Export Tool.
Getting the one from the link you sent, I got my old messages
imported successfully.
Thanks again.
Great list!
Evan
On 7/5/2020 6:37 PM, Sam Taylor wrote:
Hi Evan,
Thunderbird updates itself, and you are running the same
version as I am, which is the latest.
You may not have downloaded the latest version of the
add-on. The add-on below is from the official Thunderbird
addons repository and claims it will work with versions
between 60x and 70x:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/
Good luck
Sam
On 6/07/2020 7:49 am, Evan Reese wrote:
Hey Guys,
I had some major problems with the unsupported Windows
Live Mail, so I dumped it and got Thunderbird.
I've gotten it working pretty well so far, but I am having
some issues with it.
The main one is that I cannot import my messages from
Windows Live Mail.
I found some instructions, but they do not seem to apply
to my version of Thunderbird.
I was told to export the WLM messages in .eml format,
which I did.
Then create a new folder in my Thunderbird Local Folders
section and then select it, which I also did.
Then, I was told to right click on that folder and find
Import Export Tools. But that option isn't in my Context
menu.
So I went out to Google and found an add-on called Import
Export Tools and downloaded it.
I couldn't figure out where to put it, and the page where
the file was located didn't tell me, so I once again went
to Google and looked up how to install an add-on from a
file. I followed the instructions and was told that the
add-on was incompatible with my version of Thunderbird,
version 68.10.1. Apparently, there are newer versions of
Thunderbird. I wasn't aware that I was getting an older
version when I got it a couple weeks ago.
I'm using a Windows 7 laptop, which I hope to replace in
the not too distant future, but I'd like to get my old WLM
messages imported before then.
A related problem is that I do not see any way to update
Thunderbird in any of the menus.
So you can see, I need a bit of help. <smile>
I'm not sure how old this program is, so perhaps it's not
quite ready for prime time yet. Surely, importing messages
from other email clients is a pretty basic function that I
shouldn't need an add-on to get, shouldn't it?
Oh, I did try to import from the Tools menu, but that
didn't work. I only get two choices in there, Becky and
Outlook. Neither one of those works.
Any help would be appreciated.
Much thanks.
Evan
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