Thunderbird 60 problems with Address and Calendar Sync

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For all Users with Thunderbird 60 problems with Address and Calendar Sync.
You need

-> about:config
----> network.cookie.same-site.enabled = true —> false

Than works all sync…

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/04/24/same-site-cookies-in-firefox-60/

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releasenotes/#known-issues

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And I was scratching my head why this wasn’t working on my new work Laptop :wink: Thanks a lot!

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Jep, same here. Both, Nextcloud and thunderbird devs are already aware of out and trying to find a solution. I hope it will find it’s way already into NC14 and/or next thunderbird/lightning release.

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There is also this new TBsync plugin that does it much more conveniently (multi calendar and also CardDAV) and doesn’t seem to need this fix (Edit: as pointed out below it does also). Just make sure you use the latest betas as I figured out here: https://github.com/jobisoft/TbSync/issues/115

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Edit: Whoops, thought you write “more efficiently” but you actually wrote “more conveniently” :laughing:. Removed my then obsolete text.

Since it is just a wrapper, it should suffer the same issue:

will add the found calendars to lightning and let lightning handle the sync

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6th Aug 2020

Having set up an address book in NextCloud I am trying duplicate it into my Thunderbird system so that I can keep the two in sync. So far I have had no success.

I am running Thunderbird 68.10.0 (on Ubuntu 20.04) with Provider for CalDAV and CardDAV 1.12 and TbSync 2.12; my NextCloud instance is nextcloudpi at version 18.0.7 (obviously, running on a Raspberry Pi).

Following the instruction given at:

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12.0/user_manual/pim/sync_thunderbird.html

and entering the URL given by copying the NextCloud address book link, it is

https://nextcloudpi.local/remote.php/dav/addressbooks/users/Eric/minimalinfo/

and entering the credentials I use (successfully) to log in to NextCloud clicking on Validate gives the message “Validation failed” (there are three, I think, previous messages which disappear too fast to read but they all end with “X”)

This problem is referenced above (and elsewhere) which suggests that the value of a configuration parameter,

network.cookie.same-site.enabled,

in Thunderbird be changed from true to false. On my version of Thunderbird tat parameter doesn’t exist; adding it to the list and setting it to false as set down here

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/config-editor

does not change the outcome of the creation of the Thunderbird address book – validation still fails.

Can anyone point out where I am going wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Eric