[Owncloud] Synchronising addressbooks with desktop - any non-KDE clients available?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri Mar 8 12:47:55 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:27:06PM +0100, Thomas Keil wrote:
> Evolution is natively able to sync via carddav (it is called webdav
> there) using the full address of the addressbook
> ( like
> https://mydomain.com/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/username/contacts/ 
> ). I currently use this method, and except for a somehow slow sync behavior 
> (two changes of the same contact in rapid succession lead to an error message 
> like 'contact changed on server, not syncing') I had no problems so far. 
> 
Evolution is rather 'heavy' for my liking.

> 
> There is also an AddOn for Thunderbird (SOGo Connector in cooperation
> with MoreFunctionsForAddressbook) that allows synchronisation with
> owncloud addressbooks (using the same address as above, I think).
> However this is limited by the capabilities of the Thunderbird
> addressbook (not more than 2 Mail addresses per contact, and maybe other
> limitations I did not yet encounter).
> 
This is what I'm trying now.  I have put the above address into
Thunderbird but I can't get it to synchronise yet.  If it does work it
will be just about what I need.

-- 
Chris Green



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