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I am glad that Thunderbird increases in popularity. But this makes me wonder even harder why they don't work towards a features that allows syncing Thunderbird (and it's calendar [sunbird]) with their FirefoxOS apps. Apparently there aren't many people interested in offline-synchronizing anymore these days. :(



Firefox OS has a dedicated Email app which supports multiple email accounts and offline mode.

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/email

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia-email-libs-and-more

What exactly do you mean by syncing Thunderbird with Firefox OS apps?


I would especially like to synchronize Firefox OS with my Lightning calendar. As far as I know, you have to publish your Lightning calender online to make it accessible for Firefox OS.


You can publish your Lightning calendar only on your home intranet and then sync with the calendar app on your Firefox OS phone over your home wifi. Once you step outside your home, the calendar app on your Firefox OS phone will continue to show you your calendar entries because it has offline support.


In my opinion they should improve Firefox Sync to work with Thunderbird as well. It could remember add-ons, email addresses (although in my opinion it should not remember the passwords and should prompt the users for their passwords once more) and RSS feeds. I think that we miss that feature more than any other.




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