From MozillaZine Knowledge Base

This article was written for Thunderbird but also applies to the Mozilla Suite.

Outlook provides support for synchronizing your contacts, tasks, calendar and messages with Windows CE or Windows Mobile based PDAs (aka PocketPCs) using ActiveSync. Thunderbird doesn't support ActiveSync.

FinchSync is a tool for synchronizing contacts, tasks and calendars from Mozilla email and calendar products with a Pocket PC. It uses Java based software on a PC (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux) that makes a TCP-IP connection to software written in C# using the .NET Compact Framework, on the Pocket PC. It does not use ActiveSync. The user who recommended this software used it with a PocketPC running Windows Mobile 2003 but its reasonable to assume it would work with Windows CE based PDAs since they also support the .NET Compact Framework.

Tsync is a SynchML extension to sync contacts, tasks and calendars with Funambol servers. ScheduleWorld, Memotoo, Mobical, and Zyb are examples of free services running Funambol servers. This works for phones running Symbian too.

BirdieSync is a shareware product that syncs contacts, tasks and calendars on Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 5.0, Smartphone 2003 and Smartphone 5.0 based unlocked mobile phones with Thunderbird and Sunbird. It doesn't support Symbian.

The NokSync extensions synchronizes contacts between Thunderbird and a NOKIA phone.

This extension synchronizes address books between Memotoo and Thunderbird.

The MyPhoneExplorer extension synchronizes address books with all SonyEricsson phones except the Symbian based models.

OpenSync plans on adding support for Thunderbird and Lightning in OpenSync 0.4. Its the successor to Multisync. Version 0.34 was released November 2, 2007. See this web page for a list of compatible devices.

See also

• PalmSync (Thunderbird)

External Links

• The Plaxo Toolbar for Thunderbird
• Mozilla Wiki's overview of synchronizing for each platform
• Funabol projects
• Remote sync your smartphone with Sync ML and Funambol