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</div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharing address books</span></h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="monobook-body"> <div id="siteSub">From MozillaZine Knowledge Base</div> <div id="contentSub" ><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div><a href="#column-one" class="mw-jump-link">Jump to navigation</a><a href="#searchInput" class="mw-jump-link">Jump to search</a>  <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><dl><dd><i>This article was written for <a href="/Thunderbird" title="Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a> but also applies to <a href="/Mozilla_Suite" title="Mozilla Suite"> Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey</a> (though some menu sequences may differ).</i></dd></dl> <p><br /> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Copy_the_address_book"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Copy the address book</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Share_an_address_book_on_a_file_share"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Share an address book on a file share</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#ActiveSync"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">ActiveSync</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Funambol_and_SyncML_servers"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Funambol and SyncML servers</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#If_the_add-on_doesn't_support_calendars"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">If the add-on doesn't support calendars</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#CardDAV"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">CardDAV</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Sogo"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Sogo</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Email_provider_specific_add-on"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Email provider specific add-on</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#vCard"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">vCard</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#LDAP"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">LDAP</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#IMAP_specific"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">IMAP specific</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Symbolic_link"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Symbolic link</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Share_the_OSX_System's_Address_Book"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">Share the OSX System's Address Book</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Integrate_with_a_CRM"><span class="tocnumber">12</span> <span class="toctext">Integrate with a CRM</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Sync_with_a_database"><span class="tocnumber">13</span> <span class="toctext">Sync with a database</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#EDS"><span class="tocnumber">14</span> <span class="toctext">EDS</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">15</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">16</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#CardDAV_specific"><span class="tocnumber">16.1</span> <span class="toctext">CardDAV specific</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#LDAP_specific"><span class="tocnumber">16.2</span> <span class="toctext">LDAP specific</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Copy_the_address_book">Copy the address book</span></h2> <p>One way to share address books is to store the user profiles on a file share and overwrite the addressbooks of each user with a simple "copy" command. However, this assumes all new entries or changes were in the copy thats being replicated. Its also error prone. You could avoid this by sharing a single copy. </p><p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2533">Addressbooks Synchronizer</a> extension can copy address books from a local folder or file share, or use FTP , WebDAV, or IMAP to fetch the file. Its not a real synchronization tool, just an easier way to copy files. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Share_an_address_book_on_a_file_share">Share an address book on a file share</span></h2> <p>Your personal address book is normally stored as a "abook.mab" file within the <a href="/Profile_folder" title="Profile folder">profile folder</a>. This is specified in the <a href="/Prefs.js_file" title="Prefs.js file">prefs.js file</a>. Early versions of Thunderbird let you replace the "abook.mab" filename with a full pathname to specify the address book was stored on a file share. That would let multiple users and/or machines use a single copy. However, that functionality <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80706">no longer works</a>. </p><p>If you're using Linux you could move a address book to another location (such as a file share) and then use a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link">symlink</a> to create a symbolic link to the file. As far as Thunderbird is concerned nothing has changed, the operating system hides the fact that the file is actually stored elsewhere. That works as long as you don't have a copy of the address book in the profile. The NTFS file system under Windows 2000 and XP supports an equivalent of a symlink called a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_point">junction point</a>. It works fine with Thunderbird, but is too complex for most users. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="ActiveSync">ActiveSync</span></h2> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tzpush/">tzpush</a> add-on will sync your address books with Zentyal, Zarafa, Horde, outlook.com/hotmail and other Activesync providers. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Funambol_and_SyncML_servers">Funambol and SyncML servers</span></h2> <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funambol">Funambol</a> servers are provided by some free online calendar services primarily to synch your your contacts and calendar with <a href="/Synchronizing_Windows_based_PDAs" class="mw-redirect" title="Synchronizing Windows based PDAs"> phones and PDA's</a>. However, you can also use Thunderbird with them. Typically you can use either a Funambol extension such as the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mozilla-plugin.forge.funambol.org/">Funambol Mozilla Plugin</a> or a SyncML extension such as the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.topologilinux.com/syncml/">Tsync extension</a>. You don't have to have a calendar (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/">Lightning extension</a>) if you just want to sync/share contacts. </p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.memotoo.com/">Memotoo</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mobical.net/mobical/main/">Mobical</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mobyko.com/Home.do">Mobyko</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://my.funambol.com/">MyFUNAMBOL</a> (its free but runs ads on some mobile phones) and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zyb.com/">Zyb</a> are examples of free services running Funambol servers. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.memotoo.com/index.php?rub=infoAnnuaireLdap">Memotoo</a> makes your contacts available using a LDAP server (directory server) . Thunderbird normally uses *.mab files to store an address book in your profile but it can also use a LDAP server as a address book. </p><p>See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://help.forge.funambol.org/questions/answer7.html">What if I have a BlackBerry device?</a> for information about using a Blackberry with myFUNAMBOL. Search the list of supported phones of the other providers to see if they support it. Mobyko for example currently lists 57 specific Blackberry models it supports. </p><p>Tsync also works with SyncML servers such as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gsmsync.net/">GSMSync</a>. See the Wikipedia article on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML">SyncML</a> for a list of SyncML plugins, servers and services. </p> <h3><span id="If_the_add-on_doesn.27t_support_calendars"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="If_the_add-on_doesn't_support_calendars">If the add-on doesn't support calendars</span></h3> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/70768">Google Calendar Tab</a> add-on lets you use one Google calendar, and doesn't require Lightning. There are a lot of comments about it on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/11/23/google-calendar-in-thunderbird-tabs/">this blog entry</a> by one of the Thunderbird 3.x developers. </p><p>If you need to sync both a calendar and contacts and have problems finding a Funambol/SyncML add-on that supports syncing both contacts and calendars that will work with a free online service, consider not using Lightning and using Google Calendar Tab plus an add-on that just syncs contacts (either with a Funambol/SyncMNL server or with Google Contacts) instead. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="CardDAV">CardDAV</span></h2> <p>Both the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/">Cardbook</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/sogo-connector">SoGo Connector</a> extensions support CardDAV, a protocol that supports remote address books. Some email providers let you store just your address books using CardDAV, while others require support for storing both your address books and your calendar using both CardDAV and CalDAV. </p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fruux.com/">Fruux</a> (free and commercial plans), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.memotoo.com/">Memotoo</a> (commercial) and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://landmarks.skyrise.de/">Landmarks</a> (commercial) are examples of a service that that can be used to store your contacts and calendars using the CardDAV and CalDAV protocols if you install the Lightning and SoGo Connector add-ons. Its not always clear if you can use just the Cardbook add-on to store address books with one of these services due to the SoGo Connector being the only viable CardDAV add-on for so long. </p><p>Google Calendar supports CalDAV while Google Contacts supports CardDAV. It will fetch updates on the schedule you select in the Settings. Fastmail and Polarismail are examples of inexpensive commercial email providers that offer CalDAV and CardDAV support. </p><p>If you want to sync your address book between Thunderbird and Outlook using a email provider that supports CardDAV, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fieldstonsoftware.com/software/gsyncit4/index.shtml">Gsync</a> (commercial product, unregistered version with limits is also available) and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/outlookcaldavsynchronizer/">Outlook CalDav Synchronizer</a> (free, open source) are examples of an Outlook plug-in to support CardDAV and CalDAV. Outlook currently doesn't have any built-in support for CardDAV or CalDAV. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Sogo">Sogo</span></h3> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends">SoGo Connector</a> extension adds support for remote DAV address books, and features that are meant to be used with the Lightning extension (a calendar). It supports GroupDAV , CardDAV and WebDAV Sync. The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends">SoGo Integrator</a> extension adds additional features such as remote administration of folder subscriptions, automatic propagation of updates to selected extensions from a local update server and automatic propagation of default settings that are useful when Thunderbird is used in an organization. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Email_provider_specific_add-on">Email provider specific add-on</span></h2> <p>There are a couple of email provider specific add-ons that synchronize Thunderbird's address book with your webmail address book. The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7307">Google Contacts</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gcontactsync.mozdev.org/index.html">gcontactsync</a> add-ons are examples of this. Search <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/">Mozilla Add-ons (AMO)</a> to find others. </p><p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.zindus.com/faq-thunderbird-google/">Zindus</a> add-on was a very popular add-on used to sync contacts with Google but it doesn't work with Thunderbird 24.0 and later because support for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/E4X">e4x</a> was dropped in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko">Gecko layout engine</a>. </p><p>Some email providers provide synchronization programs (not add-ons) that will work with just their accounts. For example. Yahoo provides <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/addressbook/autosync/">Yahoo AutoSync</a> and Google provides <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/">Google Sync</a>. Unfortunately, neither currently supports Thunderbird. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="vCard">vCard</span></h2> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/it/thunderbird/addon/thundersync/">ThunderSync</a> add-on exports the contents of address books as vCards, and can synchronize them. The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html">MoreFunctionsForAddressBook</a> add-on also knows how to import and export vCards but it doesn't support synchronization. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="LDAP">LDAP</span></h2> <p>Rather than using abook.mab to store the address book on your hard disk, you could use a LDAP server to share the address book. Unfortunately Thunderbird currently doesn't support editing entries on the LDAP server (this is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86405">bug 86405</a>) so its most useful in an environment where an admin maintains a corporate address book. </p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldapaddrbook/">LdapAddressBook</a> is a separate application which can be used with Thunderbird to provide full read/write access to an LDAP directory. Its written in Java. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="IMAP_specific">IMAP specific</span></h2> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gargan.org/extensions/synckolab.html">SyncKolab extension</a> synchronizes your contacts as well as events and todos (from the selected calendar) with a selected IMAP folder. You do not need a calendar if all you want to do is synchronize your address book. The extension prevents the display of the IMAP quota in the status bar. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2308055">[1]</a> </p><p>If you want to share the address book with other users you could use a public folder. IMAP supports the concept of public folders, though not every e-mail provider supports them. </p><p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/addressbooks-synchronizer/?src=cb-dl-mostpopular">AddressBooks Synchronizer</a> add-on supports FTP, Webdav and IMAP servers </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Symbolic_link">Symbolic link</span></h2> <p>Some file systems support creating links to individual files or folders which will appear to be at the specified location even though they are actually stored elsewhere. There are three types of file links supported in the NTFS file system: hard links, junction points and symbolic links (aka soft links). You would normally use a symbolic link (it only effects a file, not a directory like a junction point does) to fool your operating system into acting as if a *.mab file was still stored in your profile even though you had moved it to a folder in OneDrive or Dropbox. That way you could share the address books between multiple PCs. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/">Complete Guide to Symbolic Links (symlinks) on Windows or Linux</a>. </p><p>There are other tools to create a symbolic link such as the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html">Link Shell Extension</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/symlinker-create-symlink-hardlink-and-directory-junction-in-windows/">Symlinker</a>. Microsoft uses symbolic links and junction points in NTFS partitions to make the Windows folder structure to mimic what applications expected for older versions of Windows. You can use a utility like <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ntfs_links_view.html">NTFSLinksView</a> to see all of the symbolic links and junctions. </p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lpic1-104-6/">Learn Linux, 101: Create and change hard and symbolic links</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://osxdaily.com/2015/08/06/make-symbolic-links-command-line-mac-os-x/">How to Create Symbolic Links at Command Line of Mac OS X</a> explain how to create a symbolic link under Linux and OS X. </p><p>If you want to use a symbolic link do some research first. The terminology is frequently inconsistent. Its recommended that you pick as mainstream as possible a solution. </p> <h2><span id="Share_the_OSX_System.27s_Address_Book"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Share_the_OSX_System's_Address_Book">Share the OSX System's Address Book</span></h2> <p>Thunderbird 3.0 (and later) can display the contents of the OSX System address book. The menu wording ("File -> Use Mac OS X Address Book") is misleading, Thunderbird can't modify the contents of that address book. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927">[2]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391057">[3]</a> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Integrate_with_a_CRM">Integrate with a CRM</span></h2> <p>Thunderbird doesn't support Extended MAPI so integration with a customer relationship manager (CRM) frequently requires an extension written specifically for Thunderbird. </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vtiger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=141">vtiger Thunderbird Extension</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sugarforge.org/projects/asertiva/">Asertiva Thunderbird Extension for Sugar</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wintouch.com/email-chat.htm">Wintouch CRM 7.0 Integration</a></li></ul> <p>Mozilla Add-ons has: </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1356">vTiger</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/3464">Archive mail in SuperOffice CRM software from Thunderbird</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4883">civicrm mailing</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7693">WICE Thunderbird Connector</a></li></ul> <p>Others solutions can be found via CRM to LDAP support, then connecting your Thunderbird on the LDAP. Some CRM does not provide in-house LDAP storage but you can find some plugins doing the job for you: </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sugarforge.org/projects/ldapcontactsync/">SurgarCRM to LDAP synchronisation scripts</a> have good support for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Mozilla_LDAP_Address_Book_Schema">Thunderbird LDAP schema</a></li></ul> <p>Some of the add-ons on the Mozilla Add-ons web site are experimental or only support Thunderbird 2.x. Sometimes if you disable version checking per <a href="/Updating_add-ons" title="Updating add-ons">Updating add-ons</a> that will let you use it with later versions of Thunderbird. It depends upon what API's the extension calls. </p><p>Some CRM's such as Maximizer prefer to use Extended MAPI but <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maxtalk.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/132605203/m/380101078?f=132605203&a=tpc&m=380101078&s=817608272&cdra=Y">can work with just SimpleMAPI support</a>. In that case you will only see the Inbox in the Maximizer's E-mail window but it will also log what you send in the contacts Documents tab. The main problem relying upon Thunderbird's <a href="/MAPI_Support" title="MAPI Support"> SimpleMAPI</a> support is it is poorly supported (still buggy and incomplete). Its safe to rely upon it working with Microsoft Office applications, anything else is a calculated risk. It might break when you upgrade. </p><p>Another possibility is that it can be integrated via a Funambol server. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opentaps.org/docs/index.php/Opentaps_Funambol_Setup">This article</a> describes how to Synchronize Opentaps and Mozilla Thunderbird. </p><p>If your CRM doesn't integrate with Thunderbird you might try configuring it to automatically BCC your dropbox address etc. so that outgoing and incoming emails appear on the contact timeline as this article about <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thisispearl.com/support/contacts-crm-and-email/email-integration-with-crm/thunderbird-integration-c-276_403_406_415_573_681.html">Pearl integration with Thunderbird</a>describes. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sync_with_a_database">Sync with a database</span></h2> <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://launchpad.net/hedera">Hedera Contact Sync</a> syncs address books with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB">CouchDB</a>. It currently supports Thunderbird 3.1 and has a status bar icon to show that that Hedera is loaded, an About dialog and a preferences dialog to allow you to toggle debug output to the Error Console at run time. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2011/03/17/prior-art-and-rdfd/">[4]</a> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="EDS">EDS</span></h2> <p>Some versions of Linux install the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/arch.shtml">Evolution Data Server</a> to provide a global address book, calendar and task list for the desktop environment. 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