305795 - Allow new account to select existing address book set rather than create new one

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266181

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Jon Roland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

At present when a new account is created, it also creates a new set of address
books, beginning with Personal and Collected. But with frequent upgrades of
operating system, and migrations from machine to machine, one must often
recreate existing accounts. This is facilitated now by offering the option under
View Settings for this Account | Server Settings | Local directory Browse the
choice of an existing mailbox for an account. I would like to also see an option
to set the directory for address books, mail filters, spelling dictionaries, and
other such things. It should also be made easier to import an address book not
just from alien applications, but from another Mozilla or Thunderbird address book.

I recognize this request is somewhat similar to some others, but those seem to
address only particular address books, and not the complete set for an account.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

RFE in titles is obsolete, the "enhancement" severity is good enough.

Comment 2

[Werner Becker]

Now, three years later I must confirm Jon's well described problem. What path leads  from the new account to the older adress books?!?. Its possible to import former eMails by server settings import function, but there is no chance to import anything else. There is no "enhancement severity" I can found. My adress books are placed in the Profile\InstallationName-Directory, but Thunderbird know nothing about. 

2008-08-19
Becker

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I have a feeling you may be best served by bug 266181.