import Thunderbird email-addresses into ZCS

[john99]

Hello,

as I understand, email-addresses stored in Thunderbird can not be directly imported into ZCS.



What is the best approach to import such email-addresses into Zimbra ?


Thank's a lot for any feedback!

John

[phoenix]

Do you mean the Thunderbird Addressbook? If you do, another user posted details of this program (it's Windows only) that you can use to do the conversion.

[rfic]

Originally Posted by john99

Hello,

as I understand, email-addresses stored in Thunderbird can not be directly imported into ZCS.



What is the best approach to import such email-addresses into Zimbra ?


Thank's a lot for any feedback!

John

I dont have the link to hand (soz) but i found an online tool to do this for you, so you can do it on a mac or linux box too. I guess security is *somewhat* of an issue as it is processed server side but really,contacts are contacts. Not *that* bad. And if you worry just delete them from thunderbird before you save the export and convert with the tool..

[NOZIL]

I'm currently trying dawn. It will be good for single addresses but you'll have some work to handle distribution lists that are in your thunderbird address book.

I think an ldif export from thunderbird is the best, as ldif is the only standardized file format that supports distribution lists.

Then, you need de develop a programm that read your ldif export, and create a csv file to re-create lists.

I'll work on this as soon as i'll have some time for this.