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This document provides directions for converting address books to Mozilla from Mulberry, Pine, Outlook, Siren, and Eudora. If your current address book has more than 25 names in it, you will probably want to convert it; if it contains fewer names, however, it is probably easier to enter the names individually in Mozilla's address book.
Important Note about ITS and Address Book Conversions
ITS provides this document to help you convert to Mozilla from other email programs. Additional help from ITS resources, however, may not always be available for address book conversions, which are not officially supported.
Depending on the program from which you're converting, you may need to be familiar with the following terms:
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Records: A record is the set of information stored for an individual or group in your address book.
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Fields: Address books separate information about each record into fields. Generally, each piece of information constitutes a separate field, so that, for example, the Name field is separate from the Email field.
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Delimiters: Keystrokes known as delimiters separate each field in your address book. Mozilla uses the comma as its delimiter.
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Group Addresses: Most address books have an option to store group addresses, that is, one record that includes multiple addresses. A group address might include the addresses of all members of your book or bicycle club, for example.
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In Mulberry, select Open Address Book from the Addresses menu. The Address Book folder appears in the Address Book Manager window. To open an address book to export, click the plus sign ( + ) next to the Address Books folder to open it, and then double-click your address book.
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With an address book open, select the Addresses menu, Export Addresses and select Communicator from the drop down menu. This exports a file of the type LDIF.
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In the Save As window, select a convenient folder, and then name and save the file.
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Open Mozilla.
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Select Windows > Address Book from the top menu.
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In Address Book select Tools > Import .
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In dialog box Import click radio button Address Book and hit Next .
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In the following dialog box select Text File (LDIF, tab csv.txt) and hit Next .
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In dialog box Select address book file find the file address.ldif you created above and make it show in the File Name box. Click Open .
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Now you should see the animated show with conversion of the Address Book and the message Addresses successfully imported will appear.
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Click Finish .
Microsoft makes two major versions of their email program, Outlook:
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Outlook Express is free, and comes packaged with Internet Explorer. (If you do not already have Internet Explorer, you can download it from [ http://www.microsoft.com./ ] Microsoft ).
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Outlook comes packaged with Microsoft Office. It comes in different varieties named for the year the program was released, so you might have Outlook 97, 98, or 2000, and so on, into the foreseeable future.
Instructions are provided in this document for converting from the different versions of Outlook.
Outlook 97 and 98 have problems with address book conversions. Outlook Express generally does a good job with conversions, however, and Outlook and Outlook Express usually share an address book. Instead of converting from Outlook, then, you can convert from Outlook Express. If the Outlook and Outlook Express address books are not currently shared, turn on the sharing option by completing the steps below.
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Open your address book in Outlook Express by selecting the Tools menu, and then Address Book .
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In the Address Book window, select the Tools menu, and then Options .
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If the option to Share contact information is not selected, and if you have important addresses in your Outlook Express book, you need to click Cancel and copy those addresses as explained in the section, Copying Outlook Express Addresses to Outlook, below. Then turn on the sharing option.
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If the option to Share contact information is not selected, and if you have copied any important addresses from Outlook Express to Outlook already, click in the check box to turn on the option and then click OK.
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If the option to Share contact information is already selected, you're done. The address book is shared.
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Exit and restart Outlook Express. The address book is now shared.
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Convert the Outlook Express address book to Mozilla as explained later in this document.
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Open Mozilla.
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Select Windows > Address Book from the top menu.
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In Address Book select Tools > Import .
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In dialog box Import click radio button Address Book and hit Next .
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In the following dialog box select Outlook Express and hit Next .
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Click Finish .
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Connect to the Internet and use an SFTP program such as SSH Secure File Transfer Client or Fetch to connect to isis.unc.edu and download the file .addressbook from your Isis home directory. (For help using an SFTP program, see the document [ http://help.unc.edu/?id=6160 ] Connecting to isis.unc.edu and your H-drive using SSH/SFTP Secure Shell in Windows or [ http://help.unc.edu/?id=6152 ] Connecting to isis.unc.edu using Fetch in Mac OS 10.)
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Use Windows Explorer or the My Computer window to find the Pine address book file you downloaded. Select the file and from the File menu, select Rename . Delete the period (.) at the beginning of the file name, and make it a text file by typing the file extension .txt at the end of its name. Complete the naming process by pressing Enter . The file name should now be: addressbook.txt
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Open Mozilla.
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Select Windows > Address Book from the top menu.
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In Address Book select Tools > Import .
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In dialog box Import click radio button Address Book and hit Next .
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In the following dialog box select Text File (LDIF, tab csv.txt) and hit Next .
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In dialog box Select address book file find the file address.txt you created above and make it show in the File Name box. Click Open .
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Now you should see the animated show with conversion of the Address Bookand the message Addresses successfully imported will appear.
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Click Finish .
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Open Siren. If the address book window is not open, select the Utility menu and then Address Book . The command is not available if the address book is already open.
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Select Command , and then Export to ASCII file . Name the file and save it in a convenient location.
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In a word processing program such as Microsoft Word, open the exported address book. Although not every record may have information in each field, each record is in this format: First_Name ; Last_Name ; Company Name ; Fax Number ; Email_address ; Alias .
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Fields in the Siren address book are separated by quotation marks and semi-colons. Mozilla fields are separated only by commas. To prepare the Siren file for Mozilla, first, replace all quotation marks (") with nothing. To do this in Word, select the Edit menu, and then Replace . In the Replace field, type " Then delete anything in the Replace with field, and click Replace All . Then use the Replace window to replace all semi-colons (;) with commas (,).
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Save the file as a text file, but add the file extension .csv to indicate it is a comma-separated value file. For example, you might name the file address.txt.csv. Close the file.
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Open Mozilla.
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Select Windows > Address Book from the top menu.
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In Address Book select Tools > Import .
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In dialog box Import click radio button Address Book and hit Next .
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In the following dialog box select Text File (LDIF, tab csv.txt) and hit Next .
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In dialog box Select address book file find the file address.csv you created above and make it show in the File Name box. Click Open .
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Now you should see the animated show with conversion of the Address Bookand the message Addresses successfully imported will appear.
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Click Finish .
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Eudora is not supported by ITS. For additional help with Eudora, visit the Eudora Web page at http://www.eudora.com/ .
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Open Mozilla.
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Select Windows > Address Book from the top menu.
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In Address Book select Tools > Import .
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In dialog box Import click radio button Address Book and hit Next .
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In the following dialog box select Eudora and hit Next .
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Click Finish .
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Open the address book.
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Select File > Export .
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In the Export As window, give your file a name and save as LDIF(*.ldif).
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Open Mozilla.
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Select Windows > Address Book from the top menu.
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In Address Book select Tools > Import .
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In dialog box Import click radio button Address Book and hit Next .
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In the following dialog box select Text File (LDIF, tab csv.txt) and hit Next .
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In dialog box Select address book file find the file address.ldif you created above and make it show in the File Name box. Click Open .
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Now you should see the animated show with conversion of the Address Book and the message Addresses successfully imported will appear.
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Click Finish .
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Open Netscape 7.0.
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Select Window > Address Book .
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Click on Tools > Export .
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In the Export Address Book Window , give your file a name and save as LDIF(*.ldif).
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Open Mozilla.
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Select Windows > Address Book from the top menu.
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In Address Book select Tools > Import .
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In dialog box Import click radio button Address Book and hit Next .
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In the following dialog box select Text File (LDIF, tab csv.txt) and hit Next .
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In dialog box Select address book file find the file address.ldif you created above and make it show in the File Name box. Click Open .
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Now you should see the animated show with conversion of the Address Book and the message Addresses successfully imported will appear.
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Click Finish .
A shareware program for address book conversions is available for a fee at the InterGuru's E-Mail Address Book Conversions page at http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm . Please note that this service is not affiliated with ITS.
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Tags: Mozilla, address booksSubjects: Mail Clients
Genre: Tutorial
Audience: Everyone
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