Update: Someone else beat me to it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/53145 As the author of a synchronization extension for Thunderbird 2 and 3, I get a lot of questions about duplicate contacts. Duplicates are more common than ever with the explosive popularity of mobile devices. There is a fairly popular Duplicate Contact Manager Read more…
About gContactSync 0.2 takes advantage of Google’s updated and improved API for obtaining and modifying contacts. Duplicates are allowed which, combined with a rewrite of the synchronization code, provides a significantly faster synchronization process. The longest delay now seems to be receiving the contacts from Google. There may be some Read more…
I apologize for my recent lack of activity both on gContactSync and Thunderbird. I have not vanished from the Open Source scene. The past month was tough (very busy and not fun) due to some strange medical issues that eventually forced me to go to the hospital. During that time Read more…
The first–and possibly only–alpha version of my extension is available for download. You can watch a flash tutorial on basic use and download it here. Please watch the tutorial before using it or you might run into problems. Remember that it is an alpha version, so there might be bugs, Read more…
After a little bit of programming last night (early this morning, actually) and this afternoon, I can now sync every attribute of an Address Book card that is visible in the Edit Card Dialog and then some. So, here is the most recent list of attributes synced from Address Book Read more…
I have been writing unit tests for importing address books and finally performed my first tests of verifying the imported data. It turns out that LDIF doesn’t import mozillahomestreet (Home Address line 1) even though it worked with mozillahomestreet2. So I filed Bug 439819. The problem was in mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbLDIFService.cpp. For Read more…
A while ago I mentioned that I accidentally crashed Thunderbird while figuring out how to import an Address Book because I forgot to set the fieldMap before I called BeginImport. So, I filed Bug 437556: Mailnews crashes while importing an address book if a field map is required but not Read more…
Well, I finally finished adding offline support, so it will should work well offline. It just sets text in the status bar to let the user know the sync cannot be completed while offline. Once the user is back online it works like normal. Any changes made while offline are Read more…
I was attempting to change my sync process today when I opened the Address Book and was greeted with 925 new Address Books. In the end, cleaning obj directory and rebuilding fixed the problem. Strange, but at least my extension wasn’t the direct cause of the problem. I found and Read more…
The extension that I am working on for GSoC synchronizes an Address Book in Mozilla Thunderbird with Google Contacts. This is going to be a quick overview of how it works so far. This post assumes some basic knowledge of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Thunderbird, and programming. Basically, my Read more…