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Clarified grammer & Eng.ish phrasing; minor rephrase this question & title, I would suggest (unable to comment) to find experts with knowledge specially of network-sharing like samba, and the exact local storage locations of Icedove
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olaf atchmi
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How can I share a thunderbird (icedove) profile, in real-time, between two computers?

I have two computercomputers which run both debian sidrun Debian Sid. My problem is that I want to synchronize profile content between two computers both using thunderbird(+lightning) (contacts+calendar+email) (icedovespecifically Debian's icedove(+iceowl) in Debian) contents between these two computers.

For email, it's easy with IMAP. It's more tricky for calendar and contacts. Until today, I was using Google calendar and it was easy (with the extensions Google Contacts and Google Calendar Tab) to have access to my agenda and contacts. However, I want to not use Google anymore and I need to find a way to achieve this synchronization process in another way.

Possible solution: Like I'mFor example I was thinking of using SpiderOak (a backup/sync tool using the cloud), I was thinking ofto sharing my thunderbird profile (~/.icedove folder) between my two computercomputers. With Spideroak, I can select this folder and synchronize it: any change make to this folder will be transmit to the other folder on the second computer). The problem is that it doesn't only synchronized my accounts settings but also all my emails (the cache). This will slow a lot the synchronization time, and will make me exceed my 2Gb ratio on Spideroak (I have over than 15.000 emails) and this is not necessary (because IMAP could doalready does it in a better way).

Is there another solution (or way to adapt in a better way this presented one) to synchronize contacts and calendar using in thunderbird between two computers?

Can someone point me to the exact file locations for Icedove, and network sharing packages in Debian such as Samba, etc.?

How can I share a thunderbird profile between two computers?

I have two computer which run both debian sid. My problem is that I want to synchronize thunderbird(+lightning) (contacts+calendar+email) (icedove(+iceowl) in Debian) contents between these two computers.

For email, it's easy with IMAP. It's more tricky for calendar and contacts. Until today, I was using Google calendar and it was easy (with the extensions Google Contacts and Google Calendar Tab) to have access to my agenda and contacts. However, I want to not use Google anymore and I need to find a way to achieve this synchronization process in another way.

Possible solution: Like I'm using SpiderOak (a backup/sync tool using the cloud), I was thinking of sharing my thunderbird profile (~/.icedove folder) between my two computer. With Spideroak, I can select this folder and synchronize it: any change make to this folder will be transmit to the other folder on the second computer). The problem is that it doesn't only synchronized my accounts settings but also all my emails (the cache). This will slow a lot the synchronization time, will make me exceed my 2Gb ratio on Spideroak (I have over than 15.000 emails) and this is not necessary (because IMAP could do it in a better way).

Is there another solution (or way to adapt in a better way this presented one) to synchronize contacts and calendar using in thunderbird between two computers?

How can I share a thunderbird (icedove) profile, in real-time, between two computers?

I have two computers which both run Debian Sid. My problem is that I want to synchronize profile content between two computers both using thunderbird(+lightning) (contacts+calendar+email) (specifically Debian's icedove(+iceowl).

For email, it's easy with IMAP. It's more tricky for calendar and contacts. Until today, I was using Google calendar and it was easy (with the extensions Google Contacts and Google Calendar Tab) to have access to my agenda and contacts. However, I want to not use Google anymore and I need to find a way to achieve this synchronization process in another way.

Possible solution: For example I was thinking of using SpiderOak (a backup/sync tool using the cloud), to sharing my thunderbird profile (~/.icedove folder) between my two computers. With Spideroak, I can select this folder and synchronize it: any change make to this folder will be transmit to the other folder on the second computer). The problem is that it doesn't only synchronized my accounts settings but also all my emails (the cache). This will slow a lot the synchronization time, and will make me exceed my 2Gb ratio on Spideroak (I have over than 15.000 emails) and this is not necessary (because IMAP already does it in a better way).

Is there another solution (or way to adapt in a better way this presented one) to synchronize contacts and calendar using in thunderbird between two computers?

Can someone point me to the exact file locations for Icedove, and network sharing packages in Debian such as Samba, etc.?

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How can I share a thunderbird profile between two computer?

I have two computer which run both debian sid. My problem is that I want to synchronize thunderbird(+lightning) (contacts+calendar+email) (icedove(+iceowl) in Debian) contents between these two computers.

For email, it's easy with IMAP. It's more tricky for calendar and contacts. Until today, I was using Google calendar and it was easy (with the extensions Google Contacts and Google Calendar Tab) to have access to my agenda and contacts. However, I want to not use Google anymore and I need to find a way to achieve this synchronization process in another way.

Possible solution: Like I'm using SpiderOak (a backup/sync tool using the cloud), I was thinking of sharing my thunderbird profile (~/.icedove folder) between my two computer. With Spideroak, I can select this folder and synchronize it: any change make to this folder will be transmit to the other folder on the second computer). The problem is that it doesn't only synchronized my accounts settings but also all my emails (the cache). This will slow a lot the synchronization time, will make me exceed my 2Gb ratio on Spideroak (I have over than 15.000 emails) and this is not necessary (because IMAP could do it in a better way).

Is there another solution (or way to adapt in a better way this presented one) to synchronize contacts and calendar using in thunderbird between two computers?