Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I'm *very* impressed by how well Cardbook works. This is a way better addressbooks system than the unmaintained legacy addressbooks Thunderbird has now.

The earlier reviews claiming it doesn't work are wrong or outdated, possibly referring to a bug in an earlier version (21.5?). I'm using 21.8 and it works great.

I was using Sogo Connector, but it was slow and buggy, and is barely maintained (if at all). For example, Sogo Connector would only sync the first two email addresses for a contact. Cardbook has no such limitations.

Cardbook should be bundled with Thunderbird by default (like Lightning), it's great and works perfectly with my Nextcloud setup.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.8). 

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

After the latest update which happened automatically this addon has stopped working.
It removed my address book and the shared does not even sync.
I run on Thunderbird 52.xxx and the addon should work up to 55.xxx, but as said. The menus are greyed out.
Until Yesterday it worked all fine, but today it is full stop. I cannot use my 900 addresses on the CarDAV server.
All menus are greyed out and cannot be accessed. When I try to add the old address book no new address books can be added. The shared address book is not sycnhronising either.
I have this on a different computer and it works fine on the same version of Thunderbird.
I use the OpenSync on the Android and there it works fine too.
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All is solved, I had a corrupt local DB for the CarDAV/Cardbook and I reinstalled Thunderbird and the addons.
All is working fine now with no problems.

The addon Cardbook is very good and I do agree on that Thunderbird should use this as their standard Address book.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.7). 

CardBook works with Th. 55... may you contact me by email (you surely have indexedDB errors in your console....)

may you try the very last version (21.8) ?

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

After 30 years of programming computers, I simply cannot get this thing to work. Importing an existing .VCF often fails. When it does succeed, categorizing the contacts results in duplication of the contact. Even deleting and reinstalling Cardbook does not help. This time the deletion is for good.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.7). 

I'm very interested by your problems, may you email me a test case which is failing ? (cardbook.thunderbird@gmail.com)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

"Fantastic support, Philippe is very responsive!"
- Yes he is, i had some troubleshooting he solved with me next day!

Very nice AddOn many usefull functions!
- Backup / Export / Import all contacts to vcf File is a very nice feature!
- Duplicate search with merge functionality helps me to clean up database!

Synology CardDAV server has no comfortable export function yet. So i am glad about this AddOn because it grabs all the Data!

(e.g. Android Contacts App does not grab all data! 1,3MB VS 200 KB on export to VCF O_O)

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.7). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

CardBook is the missing link to finally tie TB straight in with cloud and phone, fantastic!!
* Reliable syncing to NextCloud: While inverseSOGO gave me lots of trouble, CardBook worked out of the box.
* Standards compliant: No information is lost when syncing with your phone. In contrast, the standard AB has a second address line which is ignored upon sync.
* Convenient: Full text search, groups are accessible with one click and map into android [in DavDroid set per-card-categorie]
* Allows calling Skype without Telify AddOn [under preferences-internet communication add Phone Code:skype Protocol:skype]
* Make sure to configure in Thunderbird preferences, Display tab, uncheck the last option : "Show only display name for people in my address book". Otherwise it was very laggy for me [see SOLVED - 21.4 and 21.5 makes Thunderbird extremely laggy]
* Fantastic support, Philippe is very responsive!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.5).  This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've only played around with this for a few minutes so I can't speak to stability yet but at first glance this is excellent. I'd go so far as to recommend this replace the default Thunderbird address book. I was using AddressBook Tab but think this is going to replace it!

I appreciate some neat features like Mail Popularity (similar to XOBNI's feature) and Categories (great batching feature!).

I found this plugin looking for some way to link related contacts similar to the way Outlook does. Categories does the trick! And it appears you can edit contacts in CB independent of TB's address book.

Will social media links for contacts be added soon?

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.5). 

Will social media links for contacts be added soon?
--> it's already possible to have direct phone calls or direct jabber. for this in CardBook preferences, check the tab "Internet Communications" (fourth tab)... hope to have correctly understood :O)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Thanks Philippe for your help - problem solved.

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For anyone´s reference:

Scrolling in E-mail-list is extremely laggy.
Could trace this problem back to this Add-in because after disabling this add-on everything smooth.

Gone back to v 21.3 - everything smooth again.
Windows 10, Thunderbird 52.2.1

Love this add-on - please make it useable again. Thank you!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.5). 

in Thunderbird preferences, Display tab, uncheck the last option : "Show only display name for people in my address book" ;O)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Philippe, works OK now due to the update. Thank you for your prompt attention in this matter.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.1).  This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I had the SOGO connector before this Addon and it produces many errors in the Nextcloud LOG.

This plugin however works great!

Would be super cool if you could change the documentation here and add CardBook instead of SOGO: https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation/issues/529

Thank you!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (21.1). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Comme tant d'autres je galérais avec des synchro google, Sogo and company. Je trouve enfin LA soluce !!
J'ai pu synchroniser avec mon Framagenda en 3 secondes, ça marche!
Un endroit ou proposer des améliorations ou déclarer de petits bugs?
Merci!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (19.7). 

merci :O)... pour les suggestions et bugs c'est : cardbook.thunderbird @ gmail.com (essayez la version 20.7 qui est parue hier, elle resout quelques petits problemes ;O)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

First, your pluging is really good, I like it.

May-be an issue or an idea...the catégories of contact ( in google) aren't showed.
have you an idea ?
Thanks a lot... Merci

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (19.7). 

thanks , for the bug it's an issue in Google API : https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36761530

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Makes categorization, merging, syncing etc work really smooth. Really like the "Find e-mails/calendar_entry related to this contact" feature.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (19.3). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

After years of messing around with SOGo Connector and CategoryManager2 I FINALLY stumbled on CardBook. Love at first sight! ByeBye inbuilt address book!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (19.2). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Une vraie gestion synchro des contacts depuis Thunderbird avec tout ce qui va bien pour IOS Android Nexcloud... Développeur disposnible, réactif, attentif... BRAVO ++++++

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (19.1). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Großartig, vielen Dank für diese Addon!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (19.1). 

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

in most recent 45.? and 52.?, email address autocomplete does not work any longer. The autocomplete list comes up for a short moment, but goes away and only the typed letters are there. Any ideas what could cause this? Conflict with other addons? To get autocomplete back: either safe mode or disable cardbook (Win 10 32 bit)
Thanks

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (19.1). 

may you contact me by email : cardbook.thunderbird @ gmail.com ?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

So far so good. Just a bit of testing but so far I love this tool. Great UI and great Job. Hands down one of the best addon's I have ever seen thats written and maintained by an independent developer. Even has a forum for us users =^]

Thank you for filling this important void in Thunderbird!!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (18.6). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have my own Kolab server and uses Thunderbird as a Linux client. I already had CalDAV and was looking for CardDAV. This add-on looked promising and surely delivered what I was hoping for. Now I manage to sync contacts between multiple clients and servers. Five stars *****

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (18.5). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Использую приложения для синхронизации Thunderbird с контактами, хранящимися на сервере Nextcloud.
Всё работает отлично!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (17.9). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I use this addon since quite some months now and it has all the functions I miss at Thunderbird's address book.

Great!

There is just one issue: It is not possible to instruct Thunderbird's Junk filter not to mark mails from Cardbook addresses as junk as it is possible with addresses from Thunderbird's address book. So "good" mails get sorted out from time to time. Is it planned to implement this feature in the future?

In reply to Philippe: Oh, I was not aware of these possibilites of Thunderbird's filter. Now I filter the Cardbook addresses and set matches to "no junk" (filter runs before junk filter, of course). Thanks for pointing me to this!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (17.6). 

I cannot override the junk filter and the quick filter bar because the job is done in C++ library... for the junk filter maybe you may create a filter to rearrange the moved emails...