Zindus contact sync for Thunderbird and Zimbra

martin@wimpress.com (Martin Wimpress) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:41:24 +0000

When I setup the mail server at work I picked Zimbra. It’s great.

Today Zimbra just got a bit better when I found Zindus. Zindus is open source software and runs on all Thunderbird platforms including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Zindus can sync your contacts between Zimbra and Thunderbird. It syncs everything from Address Books to your GAL (Global Address List).

It currently supports ZCS 3.x to 5.x. Adding the Lightning and Zindus add-ons to Thunderbird create a very complete desktop client to Zimbra for any platform. Can’t wait to share to good news with my Outlook users.

Simple iCal Server

martin@wimpress.com (Martin Wimpress) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:20:28 +0000

For the longest time I have been meaning to setup a shared calendar for my wife I and to use. You see, like most men I have no idea when and where I am supposed to be. This is because my wife keeps all this information in her filofax and that lives in her handbag, somewhere I never venture. So I have spent this evening setting up PHP iCalendar on Lighttpd, and I am very happy with the results.

I have opted to use the publish.php add-on provided with PHP iCalendar, rather than add the WebDAV module to Lighty. For our modest requirements it works very well. We now have full read/write access to our calendar by using the Lightning extension for Thunderbird and read only access via the PHP iCalendar web interface. Viewing the calendar via the web interface requires a login first and the calendar publishing is protected by Lighty authentication using htdigest.

Lastly, because our calendar is a nice open standard I have options as to how I might sync it with my mobile phone. More on that when I figure it out.

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Zindus contact sync for Thunderbird and Zimbra

Simple iCal Server