[Dovecot] dovecot with Calendar or Contacts?

[ajmcello]

I have the SyncKolab plugin installed with Thunderbird. I can't get it to
work properly. Maybe I have to have a Kolab Server? I can get my Address
Book contacts to sync with an IMAP folder when I check Sync IMAP, but I
can't get it to work the other way around. From their website, it seems
possible:

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SyncKolab

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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Yeah, I've explored the Outlook connectors some. Do any exist that are
free/open source?




On 8/30/06, Curtis Maloney <cmaloney at cardgate.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Curtis Maloney
> cmaloney at cardgate.net
>
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