On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:24:46 -0200, MCBastos wrote: > I have a few Gmail accounts I access by IMAP nowadays, in part so as to > be able to use them from home, from my PortableApps flash drive on the > road, or failing that by webmail. So I have been thinking about address > book synchronization. > > I noticed that there are at least two (perhaps more) add-ons on A.M.O. > -- Zindus and gContactSync -- that appear to be able to do exactly that. > Zindus seems to be a bit more focused on Zimbra (which I don't use) than > gMail, while gContactSync is still rated as "experimental." But from the > descriptions it seems gCS might do a better job. > I found no evaluation of them, no reason to choose one over the other. > Does anybody have any info? > > And what about other ways to sync several Thunderbird/Seamonkey address > books without going through Gmail? I undertand that the gMail address > book and the Mozilla one are not a direct match, so not all info can be > synchronized... so a Seamonkey-to-Seamonkey automatic syncing (without > having to manually copy the address books) would be an interesting option.
Weave when installed in SeaMonkey currently syncs Form fill data, global browsing history, passwords, (and I think) session restore and tabs. iav (Igor Velkov) is looking into synchronizing the address book as well, however the thunderbird addressbook APIs of which we share is a total mess (the sort of mess that makes even veteran Thunderbird developers go cross-eyed). So I'd give Igors chances as slim to none at the moment. In the SeaMonkey 2.1, Thunderbird 3.2 timeframe a Thunderbird developer, jcranmer, plans to rewrite the addressbook APIs to make them saner, actually usable by extensions such as weave and provide a unique ID for each addressbook entry which we currently don't have. This last is the main sticking point for any extension that wants to sync addressbooks. gContactSync uses some sophisticated guesswork to match google contacts to Thunderbird addressbook entries and does a very good job of doing so. However there is no guarantee that this will work 100% of the time every time you change something in one instance of the Thunderbird/SeaMonkey addressbook. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]If you can't beat em', mod em'. * TagZilla 0.066.6 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
