Extending Thunderbird mail client with Python

[John Bond]

Anyone have any experience with this, ideally using Python 3?

I'd like to sync my Thunderbird contacts with various things including
my mobile phone. Of course, I want to do it with Python! I've seen some
stuff around, eg. an XPI that provides Python bindings to the Mozilla
XPCOM APIs (through which I imagine you can access Thunderbird data like
its contacts database), but it doesn't seem maintained or ported to
Python 3.

Cheers, JB

 

[Anssi Saari]

Anyone have any experience with this, ideally using Python 3?

I don't but there is a great need to have a working SyncML client for
Thunderbird. Funambol used to have one available, but it has crashing
problems with Thunderbird 3 for some people. The existing extension
was done in C++.

 

[mixedpuppy]

Anyone have any experience with this, ideally using Python 3?

I'd like to sync my Thunderbird contacts with various things including
my mobile phone. Of course, I want to do it with Python! I've seen some
stuff around, eg. an XPI that provides Python bindings to the Mozilla
XPCOM APIs (through which I imagine you can access Thunderbird data like
its contacts database), but it doesn't seem maintained or ported to
Python 3.

Cheers, JB

While this doesn't provide a solution right now...look at
https://mozillalabs.com/messaging/thunderbird-contacts/ and the highly
experimental-working-but-not-yet-right sync addon for thunderbird
(weave-ext and weaver repos) at https://bitbucket.org/mixedpuppy

The sync addon is Firefox sync for thunderbird, not an ability to sync
to your phone (yet).

however, this is all js.

shane