Please also Synchronize with Address Books (not ony Mailing Lists)

[PeterLairo]

This add-on sounds like a very useful add-on. The only thing that is preventing me from using it, is that I have all my Thunderbird addresses organized into various address books (family, friends, work, clients, etc.); and I filter all my incoming mails to be tagged (family=green, work=orange, etc) via "if sender is in family address book then tag green". Since Thunderbird cannot filter by mailing list and the add-on only synchronizes to mailing lists, I cannot use it. :-(

Is there a plan to also synchronize to address books?

BTW: Is there a Thunderbird bug to allow filtering by mailing list?

[Josh Geenen]

Hello,

Synchronizing to address books is not really possible in 0.2.x unfortunately, unless you want to synchronize all contacts or just one group of contacts.  The problem lies in how Thunderbird stores contacts and how gContactSync 0.2.x works.  Thunderbird stores contacts in separate files, so doing this would require duplicating a lot of data, and it would be difficult to figure out where else the contact is.  Updating one contact would require looking for that contact across several address books and would be very slow.  The same applies for deleting and adding a contact.  This was requested fairly early in development in Bug 19747.

For 0.3.x I am looking at allowing customization of each synchronized account, so you could sync each group with a separate directory.  Updating, deleting, etc. might get somewhat complicated, however, so I can't promise anything.  See Bug 20904 for details.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'filtering by mailing list'.  It is possible to get all mailing lists from an address book and all contacts in that mailing list.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Josh

[PeterLairo]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'filtering by mailing list'.

Thunderbird: Tools / Message Filters... <-- can't select a mailing list here

[Josh Geenen]

Oh, I see what you mean (after forgetting about this thread, sorry).

This bug might come close.  It is possible, in theory, through a patch to Thunderbird or possibly through an extension with some work.