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Agreed, but there is no harm in people trying to work out ways of doing it without having to have a full blown VM, or support from FJ.

I need to sync my contacts and calendar with Linux Thunderbird, so I'm not sure whether a VM would help.

For calendar and contacts it turns out there is a ...

Thanks to FJ's idea of using local .vcf and .ics files with the Linux version of Thunderbird, I have found that this is possible.

MPE can be used under Wine on Linux, using a 32 bit Wine folder, and adding vb6run using winetricks. This is documented on another thread (the lkast post on https://www ...

That's a very interesting idea. Thanks very much. I shall look into it.

I can't even get the latest Thunderbird to install cleanly under Wine, so have given up.

The way I used to do it was to install Tbird and MPE under Wine, and link a small number of Tbird files (mainly address book and calendar) to my active Linux version of Tbird. Once upon a time it worked.

Tkanks, I'm well aware of that. Many people, including me, have tried several tricks to make it work, but since a few years ago without success. Some modified the Thunderbird extension to try to make it work, but that hasn't worked for me for a while.

I'll try again, but it would help to know if ...

Has anyone got a recent version of MPE to work with the latest Thunderbird (115) under Linux?

I'm aware there are other related threads, but they have been inactive for a while, and many posts only relate to MPE, not Thunderbird.

Please forgive me for being really stupid, but what is the purpose of using mpe without a PC based email client? Sorry, but I really don't understand. Can you, or someone please explain how you are using mpe.

Most of my issues with mpe under linux are in trying to sync an Android phone with ...

Update: Using MPE 1.8.14 with Wine 6.0.1 in an Ubuntu 20.04 derived distro following fugazza's instructions (bottom of p. 14). So far so good!
Please forgive me for being really stupid, but what is the purpose of using mpe without a PC based email client? Sorry, but I really don't understand. Can ...

frikat hat geschrieben:Thanks for the detailed instructions to get MPE working on Ubuntu 20.04. It is very much appreciated.

Are you using Thunderbird? If so, which version? I am unable to get MPE working with Thunderbird on Ubuntu 20.04 (or later)

Is anyone out there using MPE with the current version of Thunderbird on Linux? I am unable to get it to work using any of the older methods.

HELP!

My mistake, - apologies. As a matter of interest what email client are you using, or none at all? I use Thunderbird, but I don't do any e-mail on my phone. Or if I do, I just use a browser.
I thought you didn't use TB? I use Thunderbird on my desktop PC, and sync the calendar and contacts to my ...

What version of Thunderbird are you running? Are you running it under linux or under wine? With Thunderbird 78 I cannot get it to work at all. Sorry, I thought getting Thunderbird to work was a different thread... I don't actually use TB. Sorry I can't help. :(
My mistake, - apologies. As a matter ...

Just want to thank fugazza for his instructions (bottom of page 14)! I installed wine (5.0) winetricks (from Synaptic Package Manager), and MPE 1.8.14 on my Ubuntu 20.04-derived distro. I didn't have to "kill" any processes during install... First connect via WiFi worked fine. Currently syncing ...

I haven't seen any solution in the german part either...

When I start the native thunderbird version under linux I can see following error in the error log of thunderbird:
ExtensionError: No such native application myphoneexplorer.extension

Do you experience that as well?
Thanks.

I'm ...

I had another go today, now with wine 6.1 on ubuntu 20.10, Thunderbird 78.6.1 installed under wine. No luck.

mpe 1.8.15 reports that it can see the thunderbird release directory, but cannot see the address book or calendar file. Wine give a flood of messages like:


0200:fixme:file:server_get_file ...

I am helping a friend who has a Chromebook, to set up sync with her Android phone and trying to avoid the cloud/Google route.

I personally use Thunderbird and MPE on Windows.

My question is if she can use MPE Wine with Thunderbird Linux (she can enable Linux apps of course), or do they both have ...

After many attempts I managed to get Thunderbird 78 running under wine, with the latest mpe xpi file. mpe is also installed, but now it says it can't read the thunderbird folders

Has anyone else got this to work?

Having upgraded to Ubuntu 20.10 and Thunderbird 78, I have been unable to get a solution working under wine.

I can't get the myphoneexplorer xpi to install under Thunderbird running under wine.

The solution for linking mpe to Thunderbird under linux doesn't work any more since the xpi has been ...

Hallo finally I managed to write a little python-script to automate the process.
It should create the Registry-Entry if not existing.
It should create the Folder and the .bak file.
Most imported it should modify the installed Add-on.
After running the script, you should restart Thunderbird twice ...

This method has stopped working after an upgrade. I have updated ubuntu to 19.10 (from 19.04). I have tried clearing out mpe from wine and starting again, to no avail. I have checked that my mpe.js extension is still correct.
The problem now is that although mpe does start (or set the focus on ...