I’ve been using Thunderbird to connect (via Pop3) to exchange. Of course this hasn’t given me calendar – so I’ve been using Google Calendars with the the Google Provider and Lightening plug-ins for Thunderbird.

This has worked superbly for me; but I’ve been willing to put up with the fact that the Thunderbird plug-ins don’t actually do “sync” – they need a connection to t’internet in order to show me my google cals.

My colleagues are “Thunderbird curious” – But they need contact sharing, and sync to their phones.

So…

For contact sync I’m looking at -

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2533

And for Google cal-sync to phone I’m trying the free version of GooSync -

Next things… Outlook Mail Import (likely to be tough)

Mail Server replacement? When, how, with what.