Today’s 0.8.7 release includes support for the latest beta release of Thunderbird 3.

The addon has been translated into Ukranian (thanks to nazar_ko).

Bugfixes are listed in the release notes.

Today’s 0.8.6 release includes three new translations:

• Czech: cs-CZ - thanks to fik
• Dutch: nl-NL - thanks to: Joost de Bruijn
• Brazilian portuguese: pt-BR - thanks to Luiz

For Google users, the release allows duplicate contacts and supports include/ignore of Suggested contacts.

Bugfixes are listed in the  release notes.

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!

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.

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!

The 0.8.5 release of the addon includes:
* it-IT translation
* support for SeaMonkey 2.0a2 and Thunderbird 3.0b1
* bugfixes

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.

The de-DE translation is available in the 0.8.3 release, together with some minor bugfixes for Google users.

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

If you sync with Google and experience a conflict after an upgrade to this version, it may relate to the bugfix for the Google ‘company’ and ‘title’ fields.  The conflict resolution UI will correctly select the Google version.  Simply click “confirm” and the next sync will work fine.

Today’s 0.8.0 release introduces loads of new features, including:

• option to sync with multiple accounts: one zimbra plus multiple google
• locale support for fr-FR and gl-ES
• support for Thunderbird 3.0a3
• performance and UI improvements

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

The Zindus addon now supports the following locales:

• cs-CZ Czech / Česky
• de-DE German / Deutsch
• fr-FR French / Français
• gl-ES Galician / Galego
• hu-HU Hungarian / Magyar
• it-IT Italian / Italiano
• nl-NL Dutch / Nederlands
• pt-BR Portuguese /Português (Brazil)
• uk-UA Ukrainian / украї́нська

If you would like to translate the addon into your language, please click on the “contact” link to get in touch.

Translations started that need help to finish:

• pt-PT Portuguese /Português (Portugal) - 74% remains
• tr-TR Turkish / Türkçe - 46% remains

Configuring sync with Google is easy.  Select an addressbook to sync with Google, and choose:

• Personal Address Book if you want contacts auto-added by Thunderbird to appear in Google.  You’ll have one set of contacts.
• zindus/yourname@gmail.com if you want to manage your Google contacts separately from other contacts.

When you first sync an addressbook, you may encounter Google’s rules for contacts:

• an email address can only appear in one contact
• no empty contacts

These rules are enforced in Gmail’s contact interface and to sync with Google, your Thunderbird addressbook must comply with them too. Read the rest of this entry »