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(Unverified)Jul 2nd 2007 6:14PM
Hi Kansir & Neil,
I've managed to surf -a lot- of forums looking for the answer to this, and just for a simple PC, not even a Mac!
I don't know if this'll work for you guys, but it's worked for me on-site at a contract job's PC, and hope it can work for other PC users out there:
1. Download BirdieSync (EasySync, several other open-source options for non-ActiveSync-capable Mac users)
2. Download ActiveSync 4.5 from Microsoft's site (CNET only has 4.2--don't bother)
3.Download the Thunderbird extension "WebMail" =and= ("Google Mail" OR "Yahoo! Mail" OR [whatever web-based email service you're trying to tap into and download to TBird locally])
--3a. I have needed to find and install the "YPops!" app to get through one contract client's firewall. Worked fine.
4. Install all of the above. Run ActiveSync -before- you try to run BirdieSync (however, run EasySync whenever you please).And, Be sure to install "WebMail" extension before you try to install your specific web-service extension.
5. Connect your PIM to your PC (or Mac, in a perfect world where the EasySync/whatever works on Macs) via USB (not sure if it can work by IR or Bluetooth), and open your newly-augmented Thunderbird. It should automatically ask you to configure your BirdieSync (EasySync, whatever yer using) profile and confirm things on your PPC. Do so.
Here's what -should- happen:
-WebMail (or WebMail through YPops!) allows TBird to speak the generic language of web mail servers.
-The specific extension you added for -your- particular service speaks the language, and knows their secret handshake, so it lets it take your email. (I always check "leave email on server/until I delete it" in TBird. Saves space.)
-Once on TBird, the Birdie/EasySync you've installed allows you to get all of that data--emails, calendar info, comma-separated files like address books, etc.--over to your PIM!
If it all works right...light a small incense cone, because this is a pain in the ass both Jobs and Gates should have had ironed out years ago.
Hope it helps,
Matt