Today’s testing release has loads of new features, including the option to sync with multiple accounts.  See the release notes for details.  Feedback is welcome!

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

0.7.10 is a minor bugfix release.  For details see the release notes.

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.

Today’s testing release introduces a feature to sync postal addresses between Thunderbird and Google.

An earlier blog entry on postal addresses began by noting the underlying difficulty of syncing Thunderbird and Google postal addresses because:

• Thunderbird structures a postal address into several fields: street, city, state, postcode and country; whereas
• Google has one free-format “postal address” field

Here’s how the postal address sync feature works.
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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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Here’s a short overview of the Zindus addon for Thunderbird.

What is the Zindus addon?

The addon is a sync server specializing in contacts and address books.

It’s purpose is to bring free (open-source) and easy-to-use contact sync to Thunderbird.

A contact sync server

Much of the contact data that Thunderbird should sync with lives in applications that aren’t sync-aware. The Google Contacts and Zimbra APIs are two examples. Somewhere along the line, a sync server is required to orchestrate a sync.
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This is a bugfix update to yesterday’s release. The timer that initiated the background Zimbra sync wasn’t working. Thanks to OlaP and BasS for pointing this out!

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!