14

I have thunderbird 3.0 with the Zindus plugin. However it seems that Zindus syncs one way.

For example I type a new email address into thunderbird and then go to my gmail account and it has no record of this contact.

So is there a plugin or some setting that will make Zindus work both ways?

chobo2
  • 1,959

3 Answers3

12

I'd recommend the Google Contacts add-on for Thunderbird (update 2015: this is no longer supported or available for recent versions of Thunderbird >24.X)

alt text

Access bi-directionaly to Google contacts via address books. This extension detects gmail accounts which have already set up and creates address books for each of them. Cards in the address books are synchronized with Google contacts; they represent the current Google contacts contents and Google contacts will be modified when you modify the cards. TB's mailing lists and Google's contacts groups are synchronized in the same manner.

For more information, click this link.

Ian
  • 13
Ivo Flipse
  • 24,894
5

I've tried a few (including Zindus), and have settled on gContactSync: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/8451

Can't say how it compares to Google Contacts in particular, but I'm using gContactSync on three PCs, and syncing my Google contacts with my iPhone, and am very happy.

Randy Orrison
  • 7,771
1

Getting powerful live integration is actually quite easy now. Go to 'Settings/Composition & Addressing' for one of the email accounts. Under 'Addressing' select 'Use a different LDAP server:' Select 'Edit Directories'. In the pop-up enter: Name: GoogleLDAP Hostname: ldap.gmail.com Port number: 389 Click 'Ok'. Back under 'Addressing/ Use a different LDAP server:' for this and any other accounts select 'GoogleLDAP'. That is it! You are now fully synchronized!

David Bowser
  • 19