[gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[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

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 11/06/2012 05:10 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[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.

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[Daniel Troeder]

On 07.11.2012 08:57, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[Michael Hampicke]

Am 06.11.2012 23:10, schrieb 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
> 

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/

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[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 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[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.

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[Michael Hampicke]

Am 07.11.2012 13:58, schrieb 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.
> 
> 

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)

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 11/07/2012 02:57 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 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.

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.

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[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.

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 07.11.2012 14:34, schrieb Michael Hampicke:
> Am 07.11.2012 13:58, schrieb 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.
>>
>>
> 
> 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)

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