Centralizing Your Thunderbird Address Book Without LDAP

// October 12th, 2006 // Technology

I’ve been searching for this solution for a while and just stumbled on what may do the trick…if you use IMAP.

Sync Kolab is a Thunderbird extension that reads a selected IMAP folder and synchronizes it with the local address book and calendar.

The latest version uses (requires in fact) the lightening calendar plugin.

I already use IMAP anyway, and now the 3 computers I regularly use will all have identical address books. This is especially nice since I have a white-list junk mail filter. Now I won’t have to remember to add the persons email to my home computer that I added at work earlier in the day.

The extension is still in a testing phase, and time will tell if it works as well as I hope it will.

Maybe it’s just me, but I always felt that setting up an LDAP server just for this was a bit of overkill.

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