Comments on: iPhone contact list in Thunderbird http://dongyage.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/iphone-contact-list-in-thunderbird/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:43:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Marcos http://dongyage.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/iphone-contact-list-in-thunderbird/#comment-2 Marcos Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:43:20 +0000 http://dongyage.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-2 I think I know why this is not publically enabled in Thunderbird: Performance sucks, to the point where it's unusable. Typing a few letters in the To: field makes Thunderbird hang for 5-10 seconds until it finds the autocomplete options. My gut tells me that since they never got it working *quite* right, they haven't made the feature public. I have a little over 1000 contacts on MobileMe. What I did, and what I'm going to do for now, is to every now and then is to enable OE xontacts in Thunderbird, replace my Thunderbird Personal Address Book with the OE data, and then get rid of OE. Repeat every now and then. It's a manual process and data only goes from MobileMe to Thunderbird (not the other way around) but it's better than nothing. I think I know why this is not publically enabled in Thunderbird: Performance sucks, to the point where it’s unusable.

Typing a few letters in the To: field makes Thunderbird hang for 5-10 seconds until it finds the autocomplete options.

My gut tells me that since they never got it working *quite* right, they haven’t made the feature public.

I have a little over 1000 contacts on MobileMe.

What I did, and what I’m going to do for now, is to every now and then is to enable OE xontacts in Thunderbird, replace my Thunderbird Personal Address Book with the OE data, and then get rid of OE. Repeat every now and then. It’s a manual process and data only goes from MobileMe to Thunderbird (not the other way around) but it’s better than nothing.

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