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)
• sv-SK Swedish / Svenska
• 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 »

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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