[gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Does anyone of you use davical with thunderbird?

Especially the carddav part with those sogo-connector/integrator addons?

I try to move around 600 adresses in there and it always somehow stalls
or shows incorrect numbers.

I read the wikipage at

http://wiki.davical.org/w/CardDAV/Clients

and also tried that mentioned setting ... no success.

Maybe some other gentoo user here already found the issue.

Thanks, Stefan

[Michael Orlitzky]

I tried too. It doesn't work. I guess this is our best hope?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546932

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2012-11-07 01:48, schrieb Michael Orlitzky:

> I tried too. It doesn't work. I guess this is our best hope?
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546932

oh my ;)

Is it not working at all or is only the import problematic?
In my tests with much less data I had the impression that it works as
soon as the bulk of adresses is in there.

[Daniel Troeder]

Thunderbird addressbook is from Netscapes time :(

Many people have complaint about it, but noone has stepped up to make a
new one.

Now the Mozilla foundation has the opinion that TB is feature complete,
and will not support its development anymore - so there goes any hope :(

Sad,
Daniel


PS: _reading_ from a LDAP directory is the only thing that works well
with TB addressbook.

[Michael Hampicke]

I use the sogo connector with thunderbird, but not with davical - I use
tine [1] (carddav) as backend. Not sure if this helps you though, as I
can only tell you that sogo connectors has been working fine so far.

[1] http://www.tine20.org/

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 07.11.2012 11:39, schrieb Daniel Troeder:

> Thunderbird addressbook is from Netscapes time :(
>
> Many people have complaint about it, but noone has stepped up to make a
> new one.
>
> Now the Mozilla foundation has the opinion that TB is feature complete,
> and will not support its development anymore - so there goes any hope :(

really sad, yes.

> PS: _reading_ from a LDAP directory is the only thing that works well
> with TB addressbook.

So I would have to set up an LDAP dir and some WebGUI for the admins to
maintain that. *sigh*

Thanks ...

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 07.11.2012 13:30, schrieb Michael Hampicke:

> I use the sogo connector with thunderbird, but not with davical - I use
> tine [1] (carddav) as backend. Not sure if this helps you though, as I
> can only tell you that sogo connectors has been working fine so far.
>
> [1] http://www.tine20.org/

Thanks for the hint. Might be a bit of an overkill just for maintaining
addressbooks ... I will have a look, though.

[Michael Hampicke]

True, but I also use it as time tracker, web mailer and to keep my
different devices in sync (thunderbird, evolution, android phone via
exchange)

[Michael Orlitzky]

I could add contacts one at a time with a different client and have them
show up. Modifying anything through TB was iffy. And of course the
import never worked so I would have to tell all of our customers to
reenter their contacts one at a time, or find a Mac, or get an android
phone, or import them into Roundcube first and call me...

I started to document the procedure to get it working, but it just
looked embarrassing so I scrapped the entire idea for now.

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

I will keep it in mind but the customer in qeustion just plans to get
some specific software ... which will cover CRM as well.

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 07.11.2012 15:15, schrieb Michael Orlitzky:

> I started to document the procedure to get it working, but it just
> looked embarrassing so I scrapped the entire idea for now.

Yes. Same here.