move email addresses

16 years ago

How do I move my email address book from my online comcast.net account to my new Thunderbird account ?

Thank you, very frustrated salbwil

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zep516
16 years ago
To import contacts in Thunderbird, go to Tools > Import. The Import dialog will open; choose Address Books and click Next.

Here is a link that might be useful: /importingContacts
salbwil
Original Author
16 years ago
Than you, zep. I did that, but the choices that come up on email providers do not include "smart zone" or comcast.net . I have just been using the online service from comcast for my email ; it's called "smart zone" , and this is all very frustrating. I have tried looking it up in the tutorials, but have had no luck with the suggestions. Is this a common problem?
Thanks again, salbwil
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azioh, I think you're prepared for a problem that's most unlikely to happen. I understand people like using these programs. For a home user (aside from a business use case when it might be required), I've never understood why. I haven't had a mail system mistakenly delete an important message. Have you? If you think that's a risk, then you could do your printout or other disposition of contents when important messages are first read. As a last resort, all messages can be re-sent. If an important one gets lost or misplaced, it should be easy enough to get a duplicate or find another way to get the attachment. Flight itineraries are especially easy to get from the airline's website, they're always available. Many travel and airline sites will do a download that can be easily imported to an electronic calendar. Google mail automatically reads flight info (like itinerary confirms) from emails and puts it on your calendar. For those using other mail systems, there are sites like Trip-it who will provide the same capability.
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bart bart - I am so glad to hear that I am not alone in the universe in that I do not, and have never, and have no plans to, own(ed) a smart phone! I have never wanted to carry my computer around in my purse or pocket - I have enough trouble with my actual computer (which I keep locked in my office - it can't get into too much trouble there, and they can "track" its location all they want). There was a long article in the paper (I think the WSJ) yesterday about how smart phone providers are all moving to demanding that you pay them only by giving them access to your bank account. That is crazy - every day I read about some huge company being hacked and having all its users' "secure" personal info stolen, and I have no desire for my banking info to suddenly be on the "dark web". My flip phone, which I have ONLY for emergencies, is totally off 99% of the time, and will stay that way. fig_insanity - I can't imagine your frustration - I hope you manage to re-construct your lost contacts somehow. I agree with everyone that every time some sort of system says they are "updating", it is usually a catastrophe. Jackie
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zep516
16 years ago
See link

Here is a link that might be useful: dress-book-contacts-from-comcast-webmail.
salbwil
Original Author
16 years ago
Hi,
Thank you for the link. However, the set up on "smart zone " is different ( windows 7) and the left hand navigation menu is not there.When I use the drop down menu on the address book, there is no option for exporting OR importing, for that matter. I do so wish there was. It certainly would make things easier. It's as though they don't want you to do anything to the program.
salbwil
zep516
16 years ago
That's all the help I could provide. Not sure why E-Mail is so complicated, moving and address folder should be a simple process, more often it's not though.
bob414
16 years ago
salbwil go to the smartzone and click on 'Preferences'. After you click on that the left hand column (where the inbox, etc. was) will have 'Preferences' at the top. Near the bottom you will see 'Address Book'. Click on that and you should see the option to export your address book as a csv file.
buyorsell888
16 years ago
I find Comcast "Smart Zone" very difficult. Very. I have never been able to import my address book from Outlook Express nor my contacts from Outlook. So, it isn't just you. I consider myself lucky that I can check all of my email addresses using it when away from home.
bob414
16 years ago
I just did a test. I have a fairly new comcast account but I don't use their smartzone email. I use Thunderbird and have my comcast, gmail and hotmail accounts in Thunderbird. I also have outlook on my computer but have never used it. The test was this. I exported my Thunderbird address book to a csv (comma seperated values) file. I then imported it into the smartzone using the method I posted above (preferences then click on 'address book' in the preferences column) that worked so I exported them from there and imported them into my gmail account. It worked with no problem at all and I have a fairly large address book.

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