Closed Bug 271634 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Request Import/Export of VCard/VCF

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 79709

People

(Reporter: adam, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.11
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I would like to see Thunderbird become adept at importing/exporting VCards/VCF files.  Preferably, it 
should be able to import and export both individual VCards, and VCF files that contain multiple VCards.  
It should be possible to drag'n'drop contacts to the system's file manager (Explorer, Finder, etc.) and 
have them appear as a VCard.  Dragging multiple contacts should result in a VCF file containing 
multiple VCards.

Furthermore, it should be possible to take any contact and attach it as a VCard to an outgoing message.  
Incoming messages with VCard attachments should always be recognized as such, and the VCard 
displayed with some of the contact info (name, address, email?), and an option to import the VCard to 
the Address Book.  This should work regardless of whether the email containing the VCard is in Plain 
Text format or HTML format.

It is currently possible to import VCards by importing them first into some other program like Outlook 
Express and then importing from there to Thunderbird, but this is of course an unacceptable 
workaround, and doesn't solve the problem of exporting.  Exporting is important for compatibility with 
VCF-file using devices like the iPod.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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see Bug 79709 (import) and bug 20304 (export) 
Sorry, I wasn't aware of those two bugs.  Don't know why I didn't find them doing a search.  However, 
they are for Mozilla App Suite, not Thunderbird (a technicality that may not matter, I suppose); they're 
assigned to someone who it says is "not reading bugmail"; and neither of them has been dealt with 
since June/July of this year.  Reading the threads in both sees a lot of people looking for these features, 
and not much going on to get them going.  Of course, I can't program and I'm just here bitching and 
moaning, for which I apologize.  I just think this is a rather important feature for a full-fledged email 
program, especially a high-profile open source one which might be expected to support lots of 
standards.  I'd hate to see 1.0 go out without good vCard support.

But if this should be considered a dupe both 79709 and 20304 together, and those two are getting 
worked on, then by all means, resolve this as such, and you have my apologies.
(In reply to comment #2)
> I just think this is a rather important feature for a full-fledged email 
> program, especially a high-profile open source one which might be expected to
support lots of 
> standards.

I agree. An address book which doesn't support import and export of the Internet
standard and industry standard address format, is not useful.

There should also be an easy way to send my address from the address book as a
vCard.
yes that's true.

Incredible that such a feature is missing in Thunderbird ...
I just voted for this bug. Some webapps like Achievo can generate vcards
(downloads them as a file), but these can currently not be imported into
Thunderbird. If you select thunderbird as the application to open the file with,
it just opens the addressbook (so it recognizes the extension) but there nothing
happens.

Now I won't give any 'it is a shame this is not working in thunderbird!'
comments as it's open source, anybody who feels that way should contribute a
patch themselves;), but it would be nice if one day it would be added.
I also just voted for this bug.  It suprises me that Thunderbird dosen't support
such a common format.
Bug 114046 is also relevant.
bug 79709 (import) and bug 20304 (export) are now Core/Mailnews: AddressBook. 
Duping to one of them as I can't dup to both ;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79709 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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