thundersync | Thunderbird addon for vCard addressbook synchronisation

thundersync is a JavaScript library. thundersync has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Frank Abelbeck frank.abelbeck@googlemail.com. This file is part of the Mozilla Thunderbird extension "ThunderSync.". ThunderSync is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ThunderSync is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with ThunderSync; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. or see Author.......: Frank Abelbeck Supporters...: Lucas Treffenstädt (testing, code contribution auto-start), Yair Lanz (feedback regarding charsets) David von Oheimb (feedback, code contribution) Laura Arjona (Spanish translation) Version......: 2.6 (2015-11-10) Licence......: GNU General Public License version 2. Description..: Allows to synchronise Thunderbird's addressbook with external directories/files. Right now, only vCard version 2.1 is supported as export file format. Disclaimer...: I created this extension to solve a sync problem with my phone. ThunderSync is distributed in the hope that it will help other people with similar problems. This extension does access your Thunderbird addressbook, so please be cautious! I seek perfection, but I cannot verify the extension's behaviour due to the overwhelming number of possible platform configurations. Quick Start Guide #1: Post installation. Open the extension's properties dialog. On the left-hand side you will see a list of your addressbooks. To the right all preferences dedicated to the selected addressbook are shown -- divided into three sections "General", "Export Format" and "Filter". Each addressbook can be configured independently. To synchronise an addressbook one has to link it to an external resource. To do this, select an addressbook on the left-hand side. Then your can choose an export format on the right side, in section "General". With a click on the button "Choose..." you can pick a file or directory. Other options and preferences should be self-explaining. Section "Filter" allows to select individual actions for each detail (name, e-mail address, phone number) of a contact. First you have to select one or more contact details from the list. A right-click on the selection will show a context menu from which you can choose an action. This action will be applied to all selected contact details. If export or import of a contact lead to charset problems, section "Export Format" allows to force a certain charset. You might need to use these options if you intent to work with exports from third-party programs (which might not stick to the vCard specs). Since version 2.0 a small tool is available which takes care of unused images stored in the user's profile directory. It is accessible with the button at the bottom of the properties dialog. Another novelty of version 2.0 is the toolbar button to simplify the access. If you want to use it, you have to choose menu item. Find ThunderSync's symbol and drag it to one of the white surfaces (toolbars). Quick Start Guide #2: Usage. If at least one addressbook is mapped to a directory it will be possible to do a proper synchronisation. Open Thunderbird's addressbook and choose menu item Extras -> Synchronise addressbook... A new dialog will pop up. Initially ThunderSync should have already compared local and remote contacts. But with a click on the "compare" button this can be repeated. A list of differences between your local addressbook and the external file resources will be built. If both resources are equal, a dialog will inform you about this.