Is there a simple way to sync thunderbird contacts between computers, like firefox sync?

Question

I've discovered Firefox Sync a while ago, and it's absolutely awesome. Now of course I'd like most of my software to work this way! So is there a way to get the same behavior with Thunderbird?

Answer 1

There are a couple of options I have used:

• Google Sync which syncs your contacts to Google.
• Contact sync like Addressbooks Synchronizer software which uploads your contacts to a server. (I used an IMAP folder.)

Other options:

• Export contacts and load them into LDAP.
• Use Zindus to sync contacts. (Same idea as the second option above.)
• Other similar sync options. Search addons for sync.

EDIT: Contact sync software maintains a copy of your contacts somewhere and synchronizes your contacts to the that copy. The cycle is usually something like:

• Download synchronization copy from server.
• Update local copy with changes.
• Generate new synchronization copy and upload to server.

I am currently using gContactSync to sync my contacts.