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Office 365 (Thunderbird) - Edit/Delete a contact
This document contains instructions on using a non-Microsoft email client, such as Apple Mail or Thunderbird. Microsoft does not recommend these clients for use with Office 365, and there are often significant limitations in client functionality as a result. Because of this, the DoIT Help Desk is only able to offer best effort support for these clients, and certain issues may require the use of a Microsoft client in order to be resolved. For more information on Office 365 client support, please see: Office 365 - Which clients/protocols will be supported?.Best Effort Support Only
Add personal information such as birthdate to a contact or delete a contact from your address book.
Important: The contacts you manage within Thunderbird are not saved to your Office 365 account. They can only be used within Thunderbird. Plus, any contacts you have created using a client that is connected via Exchange/Active Sync (Outlook | Apple Mail | Outlook Web App) cannot be accessed via Thunderbird.
- Open Thunderbird
- Select Address Book
- On the left side of the Address Book window, there is a list of Address Books, these will include your Personal Address Book, your Collected Addresses book and other linked address books such as Mac OS X Address book on a Mac.
- Highlight the Address Book with the contact you wish to edit/delete
- Click to highlight the contact you wish to edit from the list on the right
- Select Properties
- Add information in one or more of the available tabs Contact, Private, Work, Other, Chat or Photo
- When you are done, click OK
- Exit the Address Book window to return to your Inbox
- Click to highlight the contact you wish to delete from the list on the right
- Select Delete from the top menu
- Select OK to confirm
- Exit the Address Book window to return to your Inbox
- Open Thunderbird
- Click on the three horizontal lines next to the search bar to open the drop down menu
- Select Options (On a Mac, Select Preferences).
- From the top tabs, select Composition
- In the Composition Tab, select Addressing
- Uncheck the box next to Automatically add outgoing email addresses
- Close the box