Contacts: Thunderbird: Synchronize e-mails seems to be random

[boldt]

I don't get, how the my nextcloud contacts are synced with Thunderbird (with Sogo). As far as I recall, Thunderbrid can only handle two e-mail adresses (I cant find the related issue on bugzilla now).

Imagine I have a contact with 2 or 3 adresses. I can apply the following cases:

| | WORK | PRIVATE | OTHER |
|-| ------------- | ------------- | ------ |
Case 1 | ✓ | ✓ | |
Case 2 | ✓ | | ✓ |
Case 3 | | ✓ | ✓ |
Case 4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |

Case 1

1) PRIVATE: [email protected]
2) WORK: [email protected]

Result in Thunderbird:

1) main-adress: [email protected]
2) other adress: [email protected]

The VCF cotains the following:

EMAIL;TYPE=HOME:[email protected]
EMAIL;TYPE=WORK:[email protected]

Case 2

1) WORK: [email protected]
2) OTHER: [email protected]

Result in Thunderbird:

1) main-adress: [email protected]
2) other adress: EMPTY

The VCF cotains the following:

EMAIL;TYPE=WORK:[email protected]
EMAIL;TYPE=OTHER:[email protected]

Case 3

1) PRIVATE: [email protected]
2) OTHER: [email protected]

Result in Thunderbird:

1) main-adress: [email protected]
2) other adress: [email protected]

The VCF cotains the following:

EMAIL;TYPE=HOME:[email protected]
EMAIL;TYPE=OTHER:[email protected]

Case 4

1) PRIVATE: [email protected]
2) OTHER: [email protected]
3) WORK: [email protected]

Result in Thunderbird:

1) main-adress: [email protected]
2) other adress: [email protected]

The VCF cotains the following:

EMAIL;TYPE=HOME:[email protected]
EMAIL;TYPE=WORK:[email protected]
EMAIL;TYPE=OTHER:[email protected]

Obervation

It's seems to be random, which address in Thunderbird is synced into which field.

[mburnicki]

As far as I know, the limitation of 2 email addresses is also in Sogo. I'm using the Cardbook plugin for Thunderbird which can also synchronize with Nextcloud but supports more than 2 email addresses.

[boldt]

I'll test Cardbook as well. Thanks for the pointer.

[wjwieland]

I have also found that Thunderbird with Cardbook handles syncing and generally behaves better with the NC's Contacts DAV than it does with the basic Thunderbird Contacts app. I have some contacts with more than two email addresses and they sync fine with Thunderbird as well as to my tablet and phone now that Cardbook is installed.

I hope that this rather anecdotal input is helpful in some way....

[boldt]

I'm also happy with the following combination:

• Ubuntu/Thunderbird/Cardbook
• Android/CardDAV-Sync

[skjnldsv]

Same as #231

Closing since this is not related to the contacts app.
We're a standard webdav server. Sogo can connect to any of them. Any errors should be notified to sogo directly unless they advize you to do that here, therefore this will come from https://github.com/nextcloud/server :)