google contacts

[Mark Peveto]

Is there a way I can get thunderbird to grab my contacts from gmail?

[Luke Yelavich]

On 13/11/2012, at 7:16 AM, Mark Peveto <mpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way I can get thunderbird to grab my contacts from gmail?

Yes there is, there is a thunderbird extension you can search for, however I cannot remember what it is called at the moment. Just go into the extensions window and search for google contacts.

Luke

[Luke Yelavich]

On 13/11/2012, at 7:16 AM, Mark Peveto <mpe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way I can get thunderbird to grab my contacts from gmail?

[B. Henry]

I use an extension called zendis.
It is completely accessable&works on both windows and Linux t-bird very well. There are other extensions&they may be good as well
but I've been so happy with zendis that I've never tried them.
There's another add-on that can be used with this as well, but you want the main package. If you type zendis in to the add-ons search box it should turn right up/install and enjoy.

Regards,
B.H.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:16:13PM -0600, Mark Peveto wrote:

> Is there a way I can get thunderbird to grab my contacts from gmail?
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[Christopher Chaltain]

Ditto for me and an extension called GContactSync.

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[B. Henry]

both at the same time? What extra do you get with gcontact-sync?
Or are you saying that you've used both, but on different installations?

[Christopher Chaltain]

No, I just meant that like you I tried GContactSync in my case, and
since it meant my needs, I didn't look any further.

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

For ALPINE.

Gmail Contact List and Alpine

Here are two files for importing your gmail contacts list.

WARNING this will overwrite your ~/.addressbook file

Put pull_contacts.py in your home folder.
Put gcontacts in your home folder.

Edit gcontacts file and change user...@gmail.com to your username at
gmail.com.  check to see if it is owned by you and executable.

See who owns gcontacts by:

ls gcontacts -l

If it doesn't say your username then chown the file by:

sudo chown gcontacts username:username

Change permissions so gcontacts can be executed:

sudo chmod +x gcontacts

Now run gcontacts - this will overwrite your alpine addressbook.

./gcontacts

gcontacts will ask for your gmail password. Enter your gmail password.


All that is in gcontacts is this:

# /code starts/

#pull google contacts to alpine addressbook

#warning will overwrite your alpine addressbook

python pull_contacts.py user...@gmail.com >> .addressbook

# / code ends

Best to all,

DR