Today’s 0.7.9 release improves the user experience when the local or remote addressbooks fail in unexpected ways.

For the technically curious, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at addressbook failures.
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The 0.7.8 release of the addon includes support for zimbra.free.fr.

free.fr is the third-largest ISP in France and is currently engaged in a 50,000-seat trial of Zimbra.  The addon now supports the customized authentication required by free.fr.

For Google users, this release includes an optional feature to sync postal addresses.

The release notes list the bugfixes.

In release 0.7.6:

• Thunderbird 3.0a1 support
• Google: sync Contacts with a new Thunderbird addressbook
• Zimbra: performance improvements
• bugfixes

Mozilla Messaging shipped it’s first product last week - Thunderbird 3.0a1 -and it’s supported in this release of the addon.

Amongst the features that a full release of Thunderbird 3 will bring is a birthday field. We’re often asked by Zimbra users to do something to sync from Thunderbird to Zimbra’s birthday field. Although birthday isn’t in this alpha release of Thunderbird 3, when it does become a standard feature in Thunderbird, naturally Zindus will sync it.

Here is quick overview of some of what else is in store with Thunderbird 3:
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0.7.5 is a bugfix release.

Before work starts on the next release we’re inviting feedback from Gmail users on a question that often gets asked:

why doesn’t the addon sync Thunderbird postal addresses with Google?

There’s a reason why Thunderbird and Google postal addresses don’t sync.
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Zindus now syncs Google Contacts with Thunderbird’s Personal Address Book.

This means that you can now access your Gmail, Google Reader or Google Calendar contacts in Thunderbird. And vice-versa.

Read more in the FAQ or download the extension and try it out.

Zimbra users haven’t been forgotten in this release, which includes the #1 feature requested by Zimbra users - support for shared addressbooks. Bug fixes are listed in the release notes.

PS: If there are Hotmail users out there who’d be interested in having their Windows Live contacts synced with Thunderbird - please drop us a line!

This is a bugfix release, see the release notes for details.

The first sync after an upgrade to this version is a slow sync.

The new features in this release are:

• the GAL can be enabled/disabled via a preference
• the “Emailed Contacts” addressbook is localized

The preference to enable/disable the GAL defaults to:

“Yes, when the GAL contains fewer than 500 contacts”.

This default gives the GAL to users in small to medium sized domains. Enterprises and Educational institutions generally prefer to deliver the GAL via LDAP.

Translations for Zimbra’s “Emailed Contacts” addressbook are supported for the following locales: da, de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pl, pt, ru, sv, zh_CN, zh_HK.

The translation matches the Thunderbird version. In French Thunderbird for example, the addressbook appears as “zindus/Personnes contactées par mail”.

The first sync after an upgrade to this version is a slow sync.

See the release notes for details of bug fixes.

This release introduces support for Zimbra 5.x.

Zindus now works with:
- all Zimbra Versions: 3.x, 4.x and 5.x and
- all Zimbra Editions: Open Source, Network Edition etc

This release also includes a collection of minor bug fixes, see the release notes for details.

This is primarily a bug fix release. See the release notes for details.

The first sync after an upgrade to this version is a slow sync - all contacts are retrieved from the server.

Verbose logging is now turned on by default. This will help fix bugs faster.

The tradeoff is that sync is slower, but the overall user experience isn’t affected much. People who really care about speed can turn off verbose logging - see Tools/Zindus/preferences.