MPE with Thunderbird on Linux

Anmeldedatum: 17.06.2011 Beiträge: 85

Has anyone got a recent version of MPE to work with the latest Thunderbird (115) under Linux?

I'm aware there are other related threads, but they have been inactive for a while, and many posts only relate to MPE, not Thunderbird.

Site Admin Anmeldedatum: 15.02.2006 Beiträge: 31882 Wohnort: Tirol

You have to run Thunderbird also in Wine so that MyPhoneExplorer is able to detect and communicate with Thunderbird in Linux

Anmeldedatum: 17.06.2011 Beiträge: 85

Tkanks, I'm well aware of that. Many people, including me, have tried several tricks to make it work, but since a few years ago without success. Some modified the Thunderbird extension to try to make it work, but that hasn't worked for me for a while.

I'll try again, but it would help to know if someone else has had any success.

Anmeldedatum: 17.06.2011 Beiträge: 85

I can't even get the latest Thunderbird to install cleanly under Wine, so have given up.

The way I used to do it was to install Tbird and MPE under Wine, and link a small number of Tbird files (mainly address book and calendar) to my active Linux version of Tbird. Once upon a time it worked.

Site Admin Anmeldedatum: 15.02.2006 Beiträge: 31882 Wohnort: Tirol

Just an idea:
Set up a sync with iCal-File and vCard-File in MyPhoneExplorer on a path where MyPhoneExplorer and Linux have access and gthen set up your Linux Thunderbird to work with those files.

Anmeldedatum: 17.06.2011 Beiträge: 85

That's a very interesting idea. Thanks very much. I shall look into it.

Anmeldedatum: 17.06.2011 Beiträge: 85

Thanks to FJ's idea of using local .vcf and .ics files with the Linux version of Thunderbird, I have found that this is possible.

MPE can be used under Wine on Linux, using a 32 bit Wine folder, and adding vb6run using winetricks. This is documented on another thread (the lkast post on https://www.fjsoft.at/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7617)

Take backup copies of the calendar and address book you want to use with MPE by exporting them from Thunderbird

Thunderbird itself can use a calendar in a local .ics file. So one can export a current calender to a local ics file, and add it as a new calendar to Thunderbird. The old one can then be removed, and the new one referred to by MPE as a local .ics file. It can modified at will using Thunderbird, changing the .ics file. I'm not quite sure about holiday dates - I currently use a separate holiday calendar file, but I'm fairly sure that can be sorted.

The Address book is a little more complicated, but I can see that it is principle possible. I used the Cardbook extension. This was a little puzzling at first, and I didn't find much well documented help. Whilst it can do lots of things, including taking a copy of a Thunderbird book and then exporting it to a server, the only functionality needed for my purpose is to import a local file containing the address book I want to use. So I exported the Thunderbird address book I want to use as a shared vcf file, and then referred to it at a local address book using Cardbook. Changes made to that book in the Cardbook list of address books change the data in the vcf file. The original Thunderbird-based address book can then be removed so that there's only one copy of each of the addresses.

I'm a little hesitant about making the address book changes permanently, but may well go ahead at some point. I guess my hesitantcy is mainly about relying on a third party extension for my key address book. However, I guess that if the worst comes to the worst I can reimport the vcf file in its entirety back into Thunderbrd, so all would not be lost.

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