{"id":80,"date":"2006-03-01T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-06-19T01:06:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T05:06:24","slug":"outlook-and-oe-address-book-support-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/outlook-and-oe-address-book-support-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook and OE address book support in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getthunderbird.com\/\">Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/seamonkey\/\">SeaMonkey<\/a> (and even the <a href=\"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/mozilla\/mailnewsfaq\/OEaddressbook.html\">Mozilla Suite<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/netscape\/mailnewsfaq\/OEaddressbook.html\">Netscape 7<\/a>) can actually be set up to use your Outlook Express address book, and\/or your Outlook Contacts list. It&#8217;s just another one of those features that are not in the user interface.<\/p>\n<p>To make Thunderbird use your Outlook Express address book, close Thunderbird, and add the following lines to your prefs.js file:<br \/>\n<code style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">user_pref(\"ldap_2.servers.OE.description\", \"Outlook Express\");<br \/>\nuser_pref(\"ldap_2.servers.OE.dirType\", 3);<br \/>\nuser_pref(\"ldap_2.servers.OE.uri\", \"moz-aboutlookdirectory:\/\/oe\/\");<\/code><\/p>\n<p>For Outlook Contacts, use these lines:<br \/>\n<code style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\"> user_pref(\"ldap_2.servers.Outlook.description\", \"Outlook\");<br \/>\nuser_pref(\"ldap_2.servers.Outlook.dirType\", 3);<br \/>\nuser_pref(\"ldap_2.servers.Outlook.uri\", \"moz-aboutlookdirectory:\/\/op\/\");<\/code><\/p>\n<p>One important note: in order for it to work with Outlook, Outlook must be set as the system default mail client.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, it appears this feature goes back to Mozilla 1.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey (and even the Mozilla Suite and Netscape 7) can actually be set up to use your Outlook Express address book, and\/or your Outlook Contacts list. It&#8217;s just another one of those features that are not in&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/outlook-and-oe-address-book-support-in-thunderbird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-mozilla-suite","category-seamonkey","category-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}