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Setup Thunderbird: SOGo Address Book and Calendar synchronization with CardDAV and CalDAV
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SOGo Connector extention provides integration of Mozilla Thunderbird with the SOGo groupware solution. It does this by adding support for remote DAV address books and by adding features to the calendar.
Calendar (CalDAV) with Thunderbird
Configure Remote Calendar
To use SOGo calendar, we need to get the link of SOGo Calendar first.
-
Login to SOGo
-
Click
Calendar
on top-right corner -
Choose the calendar you want to sync (
Personal Calendar
is the default one), click on 3 vertical dots, chooseLink to this Calendar
and copy CalDAV URL.Note: Some old SOGo releases might use
127.0.0.1:20000
as server address in the CardDAV URL, you must replace them by the real server address likehttps://<your_server_name_or_ip>/SOGo
.
Launch Thunderbird to add SOGo calendar:
- Create a new calendar by click menu on Thunderbird main window:
File
->New
->Calendar
, and chooseOn the Network
for SOGo calendar:
- on the
On the Network
page, choose formatCalDAV
, and paste the link of SOGo calendar. for example,https://<host>/SOGo/dav/<userName>/Calendar/personal/
- Type a preferred name for this calendar, then click
Continue
to finish the setup.
Address Book (CardDAV) with SOGo Connector
Download and install SOGo Connector
- Download the SOGo connector from SOGo website: https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends
- Launch Thunderbird, go to
Tools
->Add-ons
Click the gear icon and choose Install Add-on From File
Select the downloaded SOGo Connector xpi file to install it, then restart Thunderbird.
Configure Thunderbird
To use SOGo address book, we need to get the link of SOGo Address Book first.
-
Login to SOGo
-
Click
Address Book
on top-right corner -
Choose the address book you want to sync (
Personal Address Book
is the default one), click on 3 vertical dots, chooseLink to this Address Book
, and copy CardDAV URL.Note: Some old SOGo releases might use
127.0.0.1:20000
as server address in the CardDAV URL, you must replace them by the real server address likehttps://<your_server_name_or_ip>/SOGo
.
Now launch Thunderbird:
- open its Address Book (on macOS, it's menu
Windows
->Address Book
) - on Address Book window, click
File
->New
->Remote Address Book
Configure the Address Book Properties:
Name
: SOGo Address Book name (you can use whatever name you like here)URL
: insert link you got from SOGo above - like:https://<host>/SOGo/dav/<userName>/Contacts/personal/
- Optionally check Periodic sync