[HLUG] Thunderbird address books

[Matt Stone]

Paul Stenning wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Any Thunderbird experts there?
>
> A friend is using Thunderbird to manage email for several different 
> accounts which are for different clients.  He is using the facility to 
> collect email addresses of everyone he emails to the address book, and 
> needs to keep these client lists separate.  However Thunderbird does not 
> seem to have any options for setting which address book contacts are 
> added to on a per-account basis.  You can only set it up in Options and 
> choose an address book that they all go into.
>
> We will probably have to set up different profiles for each client but 
> that is a bit of a pain as he will have to keep closing and reopening 
> Thunderbird to switch between profiles.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to have the collected addresses 
> sorted automatically depending on which email account they come in 
> through?  Manual dragging/dropping to the right place is not an option.
>
>   

You could try this add on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9995 which allows you
to search a folder for email addresses and adds them to the address book
of your choice. Just configure each account to use it's own sent items
box and you should be good to go.

Cheers
Matt