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by nick.mortin

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We use at our office, mozilla thunderbird and microsoft outlook for receiving email messages.

We have a network setup where there is a drive where people can share information. What has been asked, and i've yet to find an answer is:

Can there be an address book stored on the server where anyone can add an address to it and use it. But ones that work with both outlook and thunderbird.

Thanks

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by larryd4

In the immortal words of Dan Ackroyd in "Ghostbusters", "Don't cross the streams!"

On the more serious note, I know that you could write a custom interface in Outlook using VBA that you would use to open a database file that would have your "shared" contacts in it. But I'm unsure as to whether you could do the same with Thunderbird.

by thumbsup2

Outlook and Thunderbird don't play nice together, period. Heck, Outlook doesn't even recognize Thunderbird as an email program when it comes to being able to import it's email. And, Thunderbird can't read any of the Outlook files.

Since the only way I am aware of to have a common (global) address book for Outlook is to be using an Exchange Server and Thunderbird won't be able to connect to that, I'm afraid you're out of luck.

There may well be some 3rd party software which could accomplish what you're looking for though. If there is, I doubt it will work with both Outlook and Thunderbird. They're two entirely different worlds. You may need an entirely different email application.

If someone else knows of a way to get what the OP wants, please step in.

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