259122 - Sync email address book lists with Palm

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core Graveyard :: Palm Sync, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

It's apparantly possible to syncronize a list with a Palm Pilot.

The recipe is as follows:

Create 1 address card
Company:   List Name
Email:  [string of email's separated by ', ']

So a test record would be:
Company:  Thunderbird Developers
Email:  mscott%mozilla.org, bienvenu%nventure.com

##########
#Note:  @ replaced with % for anti-spam purposes
##########

Now there is a caveat:  There is most likely a limit on the size of the Email
field.  That must be detected to prevent data loss.


From my testing, this appears it should work pretty well.

Comment 1

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

David,

Currently it appears when a sync takes place, it sync's the list as individual
addresses, rather than as a list.

If you add an address to the list in the format:
Name <[e-mail]>

Mozila knows what the name, and the email is, and stores them nicely.

But it doesn't pass that to PalmSync as such.  Just passes the email, and
doesn't pass the name.

Would a reasonable temporary patch (or perhaps part 1) be to have it pass the
username, and the email address to the palm.  So that someone with a list of 50+
people doesn't get 50+ '-Unnamed-' users in their palm address book?

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

taking.

Comment 3

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

David: I'd caution to find out what the limit on characters is (I'm pretty sure
there is one, but I have no idea what).  There needs to be some form of expected
behavior for when it's exceeded (ideally a notice in the hotsync log, and
perhaps truncate on the palm).

Comment 4

[Adam Katz]

Duplicate of bug 176730?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Duplicate of bug 176730?

Not a dupe. This bug is about email address list aka address book list, not todo list.

Comment 6

[Adam Katz]

Sorry, I guess I hadn't read the description and comments thoroughly.

There is already a bug for address syncing with palms: bug 28040
Perhaps this is a duplicate of that bug?  You commented on that bug in 2005.

Comment 7

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

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