[CS-FSLUG] CardDav and Evolution or Thunderbird

[Mark Clayton]

I'm sorry I can't suggest any solutions, but I'd love to hear if you
find any. I installed ownCloud,
expecting to get it syncing with my wife mac and my ubuntu laptop
'real soon now'.

Mark

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> I have ownCloud synchronizing nicely with my Mac OS X 10.8 system, but would
> like to use it as well on an Ubuntu system. Unfortunately, neither of the
> obvious clients -- Thunderbird or Evolution -- will work for me. Thunderbird
> 15 never seems to show any contacts via CardDav; I think Ogo-connector may
> be incompatible with Thunderbird 15, even though it kinda-sorta seems to
> load. Yet, Ubuntu 12.04 does not support Thunderbird's ESR that is
> compatible with the Ogo-connector. I've thought about building my own
> Thunderbird package, but was trying to see if I could get this to work with
> stock stuff for simplicity's sake.
>
> Evolution will connect, and -- very slowly -- it will download off the
> CardDav server. But, I can't edit contacts (Evolution freezes) and it seems
> to redownload everything every time I start Evolution, which takes several
> minutes.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> (Incidentally, Kontact seems to work, but I really dislike Kontact's user
> interface...)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
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