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<p>Hi Dirk and *,</p>
<p>Outlook contact import is not an enterprise feature for us. We
and other people who email with us have Outlook 2003, Outlook
2007, Outlook 2010, etc and all their emails and contacts are
stored in the *.pst file.<br>
</p>
<p>Thunderbird has an Outlook *.pst filetype <u>Email</u> import
feature; but Thunderbird does not have an Outlook *.pst filetype <u>Contacts
(AddressBook)</u> import feature.</p>
<p>We and others do <b>not</b> have Exchange.</p>
<p>The vision would be helping people, non-enterprise users, to move
all their Contacts (aka AddressBooks) from any version of
Microsoft Outlook to Thunderbird.<br>
</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Óvári<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/2/21 6:30 pm, Dirk Steinmetz
(rsjtdrjgfuzkfg) wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:d75e8eca-615b-f651-ce12-73128af098df@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg.com">Hi
Óvári,
<br>
<br>
> Any reason why you didn't state the specific Linux
distribution?
<br>
Any reason you ask me directly and not publicly on the list?
<br>
<br>
I did not include the distribution's name, as this was a
confidential request for cooperation. I do not know which parts of
the request are public or which ones are private, so I erred on
the side of not violating the trust of the party suggesting the
cooperation.
<br>
<br>
If it is important to you, you could ask on the public mailing
list and hope that somebody who knows which parts are confidential
gives you a better reply.
<br>
<br>
> Can you please help ship Thunderbird deb files
<br>
I'm not Thunderbird's release engineer, and have no idea if and
how Debian packages are supported by Thunderbird's build
infrastructure. I do know, however, that you can use the official
tarballs under Debian-based operating systems.
<br>
<br>
So you can just download the official build for Linux (.tar.bz2)
and use that instead of a Debian package, or ask in public to get
a reply from somebody more qualified than me ;)
<br>
<br>
Regarding your second mail: the vision is not about any features,
but about what direction we want to go in (so effectively, what
guidelines we evaluate feature proposals against). That being
said, most people involved in any part of the address book agree
that it is bad and needs a rewrite no matter what happens, so this
will likely remain on the roadmap no matter the result of the
vision discussion.
<br>
<br>
What could be part of a vision, though, is the split between
enterprise and private users. I read your mail as a vote for more
enterprise; if you feel strongly about that I suggest publicly
posting a vision snippet regarding 'enterprise-focused', 'drop-in
replacement of proprietary tools' or something else in that
direction (whatever matches *your* vision). If something like that
ends up in the vision, features like import from Exchange would
likely gain relevance.
<br>
<br>
Kind regards,
<br>
Dirk / rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
<br>
<br>
<br>
Am 22.02.21 um 07:57 schrieb Óvári:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hi Dirk,
<br>
<br>
Any reason why you didn't state the specific Linux distribution?
<br>
<br>
Can you please help ship Thunderbird deb files that can be
incorporated into the default Linux Mint distribution so that
users will not be stuck on Thunderbird 68.10.0 until the next
Ubuntu LTS version is released in late 2022?
<br>
<br>
Thank you
<br>
<br>
Óvári
<br>
<br>
P.S. Please feel free to pass this message to anyone.
<br>
<br>
On 22/2/21 11:05 am, Dirk Steinmetz (rsjtdrjgfuzkfg) wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">- There are discussions regarding a
potential cooperation regarding an issue that is specific to a
particular Linux distribution. </blockquote>
<br>
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