Thunderbird sync add-on

That already exists. Go to http://www.plaxo.com/downloads/thunde...

I'm currently using Google Contact sync addon for thunderbird to sync my contacts between thunderbird and gmail. The link is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thun...

Hope that helps.

Thanks! That might hold me until Soocial gets theirs running.

There is another add-on called Zindus that I have used for the last year or so. It too works quite well.

Regarding Plaxo

Plaxo is, in my view, not intended for syncing. Plaxo will mess up your gmail database. Plaxo likes to put all contact information in notes and put in their unique id for each of your contacts. Plaxo is good for keeping the contacts current but it does not behave well for Gmail.

My experience with Plaxo is about 1 year old so they have learned how to interact better with gmail since the release of gmail contacts api.

Thanks for the posts maybe one of these will work for me. I am still hope that Soocial makes one for the T-Bird because sync seems to work the best if a given device is only 1 step away from the sync hub. As soon as you get 2 steps away more errors and incompatibility issues pop up. Soocial caught my eye because they hope to support T-Bird and Blackberry's, both of which I use in addition to my core MS Outlook.

Why is this topic marked as if the company has already implemented the idea when they haven't done so yet? Either way, I also hope they'll add this option soon.

Hi, are there any news regarding the thunderbird add-on?

any news?

How about adding some kind of LDAP-(web-)interface to Soocial? In Thunderbird you can configure a LDAP-server for your contacts. So you don't even have to use an add-on (which may be forbidden to use in some environments...).

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 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!

Tried it out - doesn't work. See attached image (my internet-connection is okay...).

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.

Works like a champ.

The funambol add-on does not work for Thunderbird 3 (yet). Assuming I'm not syncing with Google contacts, is there another way to sync with Thunderbird?

You can get a beta v1 of the funambol add-on for Windows that supports TB3 here: https://mozilla-plugin.forge.funambol...

Tested it out and functionally it works, but as with anything involving syncml I find the results to be half-baked. Missing a lot of fields, including email addresses unless they are marked as the "Home" (not "Work" or anything else) address.

Need something with more finesse (which is why I'm using Soocial to manage my iPhone contacts in the first place!)

Thanks for the feedback.

E.