Access your address book from Thunderbird

You will need to have set up an IMAP account as described in this document, or at least been through the first stage of those instructions, "adding your certificate to Thunderbird".

1. Click on "Address Book"
2. Go to the File menu, select New and set up a new LDAP directory.
3. Type in "iscape Server" (or whatever name you'd like to call this) and the address of your server. Leave the bind DN empty, set the base DN to o=civicrm and be sure to click on the "use a secure connection" button.
4. Now you should be able to search for people in your iscape address book. The first time you do this, you may need to permanently accept the certificate.
   Note: You cannot browse the directory in Thunderbird, only search it, so don't worry if nothing shows up immediately. Once you start typing a name, the entries should appear.
5. Next we will set up things such that, when you start typing an email, the recipient will be looked up in iscape. First, go to the Tools menu and select Options.
6. Then go to Advanced, ensure the General tab is selected, and click Config Editor
7. Type ldap_2.auto in the Filter box, and then set ldap_2.autoComplete.directoryServer to ldap_2.servers.iscape_Server.
8. Finally, click on the row beginning ldap_2.autoComplete.useDirectory and, if it is not set to true, right click on the row and select Toggle.