SyncKolab was written to add kolab functionality to thunderbird. It reads a selected Imap folder and synchronizes it with the local address book and calendar.
It has been tested under Thunderbird 1 for Windows and Linux.
What is Kolab?
What it does is, that it loads all your contacts (from a selected address book) as well as events and todos (from the selected calendar), and synchronizes them with a selected imap folder. Where every contact is stored as an vcard and every event,todo as iCalendar. For more information
http://kolab.org/
The idea behind this is, that you can now have your contacts+calendar entries stored on the imap server. so you can actually have the same addresses on more than one computer. The kolab project has a groupware server that uses imap to exchange calendar entries and vcards. But you can also setup simple sharing in your office if you have
f.e. cyrus by symlinking shared folders.
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ajmcello ajmcello wrote:
> When I attempted to import my Contacts list into dovecot, my mail
> client told me that the IMAP server did not support "Special" folders.
>
> Is there a way to to do the contacts, or sync up Contacts & Calendar from a
> database or something else?
>
> I'm using both Thunderbird and Outlook.
What are you using in Thunderbird to store your contacts+calendar info on the
IMAP server? The only tool I've found like that is Kolab Sync, which didn't
work last time I tried it. :/
As for Outlook - it's absolutely correct. You'd need some sort of "Connector"
to translate their Contacts/Calendar storage to IMAP.
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Curtis Maloney
cmaloney@cardgate.net