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15 Sep 2010, 08:11 PM | #16 |
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OK, that looks like a bug in FastMail's API - turns out it doesn't allow newline characters in any field. For now, I'm replacing them with "<CR>", and undoing that when syncing the other way. I've let Rob know, so hopefully he'll fix it and I can remove this workaround.
Also, rather embarrassingly, FM's API can't handle international (non-ANSI) characters at all. So I'm converting all accented chars to their non-accented equivalents, and other chars (e.g. Chinese) simply become '?'. This is a problem, because if that address is then changed at FM, the '?' will sync back to GMail, and the originally international character is now lost. I've asked Rob whether this can be fixed. If not, I might have to URL-encode these characters, so at least they will be able to sync back to GMail OK. I've now synced my whole addressbook from FM to GMail, then deleted it from FM, cleared my sync state, and synced it all back again. No errors! |
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15 Sep 2010, 09:08 PM | #18 |
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Huh? That sure is wacky! Anyhoo, I've just added another binding - so you can also use this URL: http://sync.howard.fm . I've only just added the domain name at FM, so it'll take an hour or so before it resolves.
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As for your suggestion of possibly going the other way (delete contacts in Gmail, not fastmail), not a chance, I have all the addresses, phone numbers, etc. in my contact book there!! Fastmail it's basically just the email addresses. |
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16 Sep 2010, 10:30 AM | #22 |
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International chars are still broken, however. |
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16 Sep 2010, 10:45 AM | #24 |
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This is also now fixed (thanks again Rob!) Make sure that in FM you first have selected Default Charset: UTF-8, in Options->Account Preferences.
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16 Sep 2010, 12:22 PM | #25 |
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For help with combining your various addressbooks (e.g. FM/Outlook/GMail/etc), and backing up your FM addressbook, prior to doing your first sync, I've documented some important information here: http://wiki.fastmail.fm/index.php?title=AddressBookTips .
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16 Sep 2010, 03:50 PM | #29 |
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Well, I really don't want to give Gmail all that information because those in my address book may not like my putting their personal info into gmails DB but thanks anyway.
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16 Sep 2010, 04:19 PM | #30 |
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This limitation is now removed - thanks to Rob adding some code to keep track of changes to phone/email/etc, the sync service now correctly syncs deletes of these items.
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