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I just installed Thunderbird 7.0.1 on my new iMac* and would like to import my email Addressbook from Mozilla 1.0.1 (the precursor to Thunderbird in the guise of Mail & Newsgroups within the Mozilla browser used on an iMac running OS 9). There are several hundred (mostly collected) email addresses, so manual transfer would be a royal pain.

I was able to import my Bookmarks file (bookmarks.html) perfectly into Firefox 7.0, so I see no reason why I couldn’t do the same thing with the Addressbook. Unfortunately I can’t find anything in my Mozilla folder which jumps out as appropriate (mostly addressbook skins and such) and wherever it might be it should be a text file and have a file extension such as .txt, .tab, .csv; as noted I find nothing of the sort.

Any ideas?

[* For any/all voyeurs from Mac Desktops & Notebooks: Yes, I kept it.]

That made me smile my biggest, so far, smile of the day!

As for Thunderbird, though, other than it being "The Word," I know nothing about it.

Anything useful in this list?

grelber,

For what it is worth, I am currently having trouble accessing a link titled "Moving address books between profiles - MozillaZine Knowledge Base" at
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_address_books_between_profiles

Some basic information can be found at
Mozilla 1.5 FAQ: 5. Address Book.

You might check what options are available to you under Tools in the Mozilla Address Book.

I do not know what format Thunderbird uses for its Address Book and if, after exporting from Mozilla, you can import directly into Thunderbird.

This link worked fine for me just now. It must have been a temporary or local glitch.
The information found at the site is pertinent to Grelber's question, and *should* take care of it.

PS, I just fired up Mozilla (1.3.1) under Mac OS 9 and under the Tools menu of its Address Book there is an Export function with an .ldif option. ldif files can be imported by Thunderbird (Tools>Import). I didn't find any .mab files.

J a w o h l !
That article was right on the money.
For what it's worth, all I had to do is grab the 2 relevant files (abook.mab [empty, so no harm, no foul] and history.mab), stick them on a thumbdrive, drop them onto my new Desktop, open the profile under Thunderbird and replace the resident ones with the 'new' ones. Sweet.

Great! So what's next?

[See new thread: Thunderbird — font size issue]

That problem belongs in a new thread.