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<div>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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<p>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.<br>It has been tested under Thunderbird 1 for Windows and Linux.
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<p>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
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://kolab.org/" target="_blank">http://kolab.org/</a><br>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
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<div>Yeah, I've explored the Outlook connectors some. Do any exist that are free/open source?</div></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/30/06, Curtis Maloney <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net" target="_blank">cmaloney@cardgate.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">ajmcello ajmcello wrote:<br>> When I attempted to import my Contacts list into dovecot, my mail<br>> client told me that the IMAP server did not support "Special" folders.
<br>><br>> Is there a way to to do the contacts, or sync up Contacts & Calendar from a<br>> database or something else?<br>><br>> I'm using both Thunderbird and Outlook.<br><br>What are you using in Thunderbird to store your contacts+calendar info on the
<br>IMAP server? The only tool I've found like that is Kolab Sync, which didn't<br>work last time I tried it. :/<br><br>As for Outlook - it's absolutely correct. You'd need some sort of "Connector"<br>to translate their Contacts/Calendar storage to IMAP.
<br><br>--<br>Curtis Maloney<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net" target="_blank">cmaloney@cardgate.net</a><br></blockquote></div><br></span></div>