Michael Rosenberg's dashboard

Well, my first attempt timed out after maybe half an hour and only 250 of ~400 contacts having synced (I'm trying to load all of my Soocial contacts into Thunderbird). I killed the connection and am trying a fresh sync again. Seems to be moving a lot faster this time.

One thing that jumped out at me of those that did sync is that email addresses did NOT show up in Thunderbird if they were marked as Work. Home and Other seem to make it, although the vast majority of these ended up in the "Additional Email" field of Thunderbird rather than the "Email" field (even if there was only a single email address for the contact).

There does not appear to be overwhelming consistency. Two contacts, both with a single email address marked Home, one shows up in the Email field, the other in the "Additional Email" field. The one thing I notice, however, is that within the Soocial web client, when just viewing the contact, the one whose email address shows up in Thunderbird's "Email" field does not have a label next to the email address. If you go into the edit screen for that contact, the email is marked as home, but this isn't showing up in view mode. The other contact does show "home" in the view mode, and in this case the email is getting put into the "Additional Email" field in Thunderbird.

In one case where a contact has two home email addresses, one marked as preferred within Soocial, the only one that showed up (in the additional field) was the one that is NOT marked as preferred. Not sure if Preferred is meant to prioritize syncing or not, but thought I'd mention it.

Some other issues. Some fields are occasionally truncated for no obvious reason, e.g., the zipcode for one contact is listed as "2770=" Why the last digit was replaced by an = is not clear. For most of the other ones I've scanned through, they appear fine, although I've seen other address fields which are similarly truncated. No obvious pattern at this point.

By the time I finished writing this the second sync had worked successfully. Well, successfully in that all Work emails were completely left out even if they were the only email address for that individual. Still looks like it needs some work.

I feel stupid. I had just figured that out before you replied and was framing my "duh!" response. The one part I couldn't quite figure out was the server name (that it was sync.soocial... ), but you beat me to it. Thanks!

Perhaps I just don't understand how Funambol works, but as I see it, the problem with Funambol is that one has to have access to a Funambol server, which means you have to have the means to setup your own server or you have to buy space on one. I though Soocial was trying to be the one-stop solution for syncing contacts. Requiring users to go through a third party application seems like a cop-out.

I think they're referring to the webapp display. If you look at a contact, it is currently displaying the address as something like (i can't actually get successfully connect to Soocial right now to crosscheck as I type):

5 Main Street
10010 New York, NY

rather than

5 Main Street
New York, NY 10010

which is the "proper" way to display a U.S. address.