1331246 - Exporting addressbook does not export all fields

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Andrei Boros]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161208153507

Steps to reproduce:

1. have some contacts with fields such as these:
 name, nickname, email, mobile, custom1, fields in chat tab, fields in photo tab
2. export the contacts


Actual results:

Tried CSV, VCF and LDIF export formats. 
None of the exported formats contained sufficient information such that an accurate import may be performed on the other end.

- VCF only contained name, email, phone
- LDIF only contained name, nickname, email, phone, custom1
- CSV export contained all fields except those in "Chat" and "Photo" tabs


Expected results:

VCF and LDIF file formats to export all fields commonly supported by the format and TB's Addressbook.

I've seen VCF files containing nickname, yahoo chat id, even base64 encoded JPEG avatar picture.

CSV file format to export __ALL__ fields in the Addressbook.

Of course, this level of support must be valid both ways, for export as well as for import.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Note that the TB address book is likely to be replaced completely at some stage, so we're investing minimum effort into it.

Comment 2

[Andrei Boros]

@Jorg: If that is the case, then I hope these reported issues will be taken into consideration in the new rewritten TB addressbook

Thank you.