Zimbra 6.x birthday field

29 Apr 2010 by leni | 6 Comments

For Zimbra users, here is a brief explanation for why sync of birthday field between Thunderbird 3 and Zimbra was added in 0.8.15 and why it will likely be removed in 0.8.16.
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google bug 1915

30 Mar 2010 by leni | 2 Comments

If the addon reports an assertion failure on line:

chrome://zindus/content/syncfsm.js:8475

then you have encountered google bug 1915.
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Firefox contact sync

30 Nov 2009 by leni | 17 Comments

A question: is anyone interested in Firefox contact sync?

As an experiment, the testing release of the addon now includes a built-in SQLite addressbook that syncs with Google and Zimbra.
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sync Google groups with Thunderbird addressbooks

9 Nov 2009 by leni | 19 Comments

The addon now syncs Google Groups with Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Postbox and Spicebird addressbooks.  The feature is available in release 0.8.15 and later.
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slow sync and transparent behaviour

6 Nov 2009 by leni | 11 Comments

Two users recently tweeted that the addon creates duplicates.

If the addon really created duplicates it’d be a serious bug.  Neither of these folk filed a bug report so it’s impossible to know for sure.

But while bugs are always possible, it’s far more likely that these reports reflect a misalignment between expectations and the reality of slow sync.

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Google bug 997

2 Jul 2009 by leni | 1 Comment

If you’re visiting this page because you clicked on a link in the addon, you’ve encountered Google GData bug 997.
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Eudora contact sync

3 Mar 2009 by leni | No Comments

Eudora was a tremendously popular email client in it’s heyday and it still has lots of loyal users.  Nowadays, Eudora is essentially Thunderbird with a Eudora skin.

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Synchronizing Google Contacts gets better with API v2

21 Jan 2009 by leni | 4 Comments

The zindus addon now uses version 2 of the Google Contacts API, which enables two new features:
* include/ignore of Suggested Contacts; and
* duplicate contacts.

Where Version 1 of Google’s Contacts API required users to de-duplicate contacts before establishing sync, Version 2 has no such requirement.

This allows the zindus addon to establish sync with Google immediately.  The dialog that enforced Google’s no-duplicate rule remains only to fix empty contacts.    Contact de-duplication can happen later or not at all.

These features are currently in testing, and will be in the 0.8.6 release.

Congratulations to the engineering talent at Google - great work!


Google Suggested Contacts: include or ignore

19 Jan 2009 by leni | 4 Comments

When you email someone for the first time, Google creates a Suggested Contact for you.

The addon lets you include or ignore such contacts when you sync with Thunderbird.

Suggested Contacts: include or ignore

By default, Suggested Contacts are included.

If you establish sync including Suggested Contacts, then later decide you don’t want Suggested Contacts, change the setting to Ignore. The next sync is a slow sync, in which the addon deletes Suggested Contacts from your Thunderbird addressbook.  Your addressbook is left with non-Suggested Contacts.

Change the setting back to Include to get Suggested Contacts back into Thunderbird.  Easy!


SeaMonkey contact sync

16 Dec 2008 by leni | 2 Comments

As of today, the Zindus addon will synchronize Google contacts and synchronize Zimbra contacts with the SeaMonkey address book.

SeaMonkey is the all-in-one internet application suite comprising browser, email, addressbook, news, chat etc.  The mail client in SeaMonkey is based on much the same source code as Thunderbird.

Today’s testing release currently supports SeaMonkey 2.0a2.